Monique has two artificial christmas trees in her apartment. the dollar tree is 1 foot shorter than five times the height of the smaller tree. if she's stacked the shortest tree on top of the dollar tree they would be a total of 60 inches tall. find the height in feet of the taller tree and the shorter tree

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Christopher Cooper

11 December, 15:06

Monique has two artificial christmas trees in her apartment. the dollar tree is 1 foot shorter than five times the height of the smaller tree. if she's stacked the shortest tree on top of the dollar tree they would be a total of 60 inches tall. find the height in feet of the taller tree and the shorter tree

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Zayden Mcmahon · Answer 1

this can be solved by generating 2 equations

let

x be the length of the shorter tree

y is the length of the longer tree

the dollar tree is 1 foot shorter than five times the height of the smaller tree.

Y - 1 = 5x

X + y = 60

Solving the two equation simultaneously

X = 9.8 ft

Y = 51.2 ft