A street light bulb is fixed on a pole 17\(m\) above the level of the street. If a woman of height 4\(m\) casts a shadow of 13\(m\), find how far she is away from the base of the pole.
Answer:
Let the distance between pole and the woman be \(x \ m\).
Here, the woman and pole are both standing vertically.
So, \(CD||\).
By similarity criterion\(\Delta CDE \sim \Delta ABE\).
The woman is \(m\) way from the base of the pole.