Q.

A farmer had a triangular piece of land. He put a fence, parallel to one of the sides of the field as shown in the figure.

Based on the above information answer the following questions:

 

(i) If the point D is 20 m away from point A, whereas AB and AC are 80 m and 100 m respectively, find the length of AE.

1 20 m  
2 15 m  
3 25 m  
4 10 m  

Ans.

(3)

In ΔABC, DE  BCADAB=AEAC(By BPT)2080=AE100AE=25 m