SAT Lines, angles, and triangles Question
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Question 1 · Medium · MathDecember 2024 · Q11Lines, angles, and triangles · 0 solved

A property owner wants to find the length , in feet, across a pond as represented in the figure. intersects at point , and is congruent to . The lengths represented by , , , and were determined to be 4,200 feet, 8,400 feet, 1,400 feet, and 1,600 feet, respectively. What is the value of ?
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Matching the wrong sides in similar triangles — Similar triangles keep ratios only between CORRESPONDING sides — and the SAT scrambles the order.