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Similar triangles with tree, birdhouse, and shadow situational word problem.

Illustration showing a tree and a birdhouse with their shadows, demonstrating how to use similar triangles to estimate the height of the tree based on the known height and shadow length of the birdhouse and the shadow length of the tree.

This illustration demonstrates how to apply similar triangles to estimate the height of a tree by comparing the proportions between the height and shadow of a birdhouse and the shadow of the tree. This example, often found in geometry textbooks, provides a practical application of the concept of similarity in triangles.

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