Woody Growth | 47 3. One spring afternoon, you take your significant other for a

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Woody Growth | 47 3. One spring afternoon, you take your significant other for a romantic walk through the woods. Stopping by a tree that is twenty-five centimeters in diameter, you pull out your knife and carve a heart in the tree with your initials inside. After a long smooch, you walk away. You two get married and live a long, happy life. Fifty years later, you sentimentally decide you want to find that tree again. If the heart was five feet above ground, and if the tree has grown in height six inches a year and in girth one centimeter a year, how far above ground is your heart fifty years after you carved it? . 4. X ou may haye carved balsa wood. If so, you know balsa wood is quite light and has no growth rings

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Initial Height of heart = 5 feet

Height growth rate = 0.5 feet per year

Total height growth in 50 years = 0.5*50 = 25 feet

So fifty years after the heart would be at height = 25 + 5 = 30 feet

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