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16-02-2017
Mathematics

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At 10 am a 6-foot- tall man casts a 4.5 foot shadow. How long a shadow cast by a 50-foot tree?

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Аноним Аноним

16-02-2017

It should be a 39 foot shadow

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jdoe0001 jdoe0001

16-02-2017

notice the picture, similar triangles
thus
use proportions

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