Find sides of a triange

Question

Your office window is a = 25 feet high. Looking out your window, you find that the top of a statue lines up exactly with the bottom of a building that is b = 650 horizontal feet from your office. You know the statue is c = 225 feet from the building. How tall is the statue? (See the figure below. Round your answer to two decimal places.)

 

Answer 1

I don't see any figure. You do. Make a sketch and label all measurements that are available.

Obviously this problem relies upon triangle relationships...similar triangles.

It will be possible to write a proportion involving an unknown distance (you have to call it x, say) and corresponding known distances; "corresponding lengths of similar triangles are in proportion."