height

A flea is very small, but can jump very high. For example, a flea that is 1/8 inch tall can jump 12 inches in height. If a child who is 4 feet tall had the ability to jump like a flea, how high could she jump? Set up a proportion of height to jump height where j is the jump height of the child...

A stick that is ten feet tall casts a shadow of 12 feet. If a tree has a 96 foot shadow, how tall is the tree? Set up a proportion of wood height to shadow length where h is the height of the tree: 10/12 = h/96 Using our proportion calculator, we get: h = 80 feet

Sonia visited a park in California that had redwood trees. When Sonia asked how tall a certain large redwood tree was, the ranger said that he wouldn't tell its height, but would give Sonia a clue. How tall is the redwood tree Sonia asked about? Sonia said the tree is 64 times my height. The...

Janey is n feet tall. How many inches tall is she? 1 foot = 12 inches n feet = 12n inches

A roller coaster begins at 90 feet above ground level. Then it descends 105 feet. Find the height of the coaster after the first descent. 90 feet above and then we descend 105 feet, meaning we subtract: 90 - 105 = -15. We read this 15 feet below ground level

A ball was dropped from a height of 6 feet and began bouncing. The height of each bounce was three-fourths the height of the previous bounce. Find the total vertical distance travelled by the all in ten bounces. The height of each number bounce (n) is shown as: h(n) = 6(0.75)^n We want to find...

A ball is dropped from a height of 12 feet and returns to a height that is one-half of the height from which it fell. The ball continues to bounce half the height of the previous bounce each time. How far will the ball have traveled when it hits the ground for the fifth time? Take the top of...