Question

Find the height of the lamp post by using the concept of similar triangles ?

Answer 1

If you have to find height of the lamp post. But the problem is that you know only your height, and distance from the tower. So, you can use concept of similar triangle to find the height of lamp post.

2. Similarly there can be situations where we know the initial dimensions of an image, now we want to know the dimensions of image when it is zoomed out or zoomed in. There also we will get similar figures.