If the lamppost is not the light source then lampost's shadow is 112/(64/20) ie 35 inches.
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The length of the shadow is proportional to the height of the post. Thus, if l is the length of the unknown shadow, l/17 = 1.2/5 or l = 4.1 feet. This should be rounded to 4 if the value 5 is not considered to be known to at least two significant digits.
The answer depends on: the height of the item casting the shadow, the location on earth, the time of year, and the inclination of the surface on which the shadow is cast.
You need more information to solve this problem. The length of a shadow depends on the angle of the sun which depends on the time of day.
Shadow lengths are proportional to the heights of objects casting the shadows. Therefore, calling the shadow length l, the height h, and the proportionality constant k, l = kh. (The intercept is 0 because an object with no height casts no shadow.) Therefore, in this instance k = l/h = 6/3 or 8/4 = 2. then l(6) = 2 X 6 = 12 feet.
Light leaves the lamp and travels in straight lines from its point source. As you move away from the source, the angle between you and the light changes and this the length and position of your shadow changes.
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The man is 5.96 feet tall and the lamp is 17.88 feet high.
That rate changes as the person's distance from the lamp-post changes. If you specify how far away he is from the lamp-post at some instant in time, we can calculate how fast the length of his shadow is changing at that same instant. This is a perfect example of a simple differential calculus problem.
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3.5 feet
Its shadow will be 50 millimeters in length, if you lay it down on a flat surface.
The length and position of a shadow depend on the angle of the light source, the distance between the object and the surface the shadow falls on, and the height of the object casting the shadow.
The length of the shadow (on a flat, horizontal floor) depends on the height of the Sun. If the Sun is higher in the sky, the shadow will become shorter.
yes the length of the sun stick does control the distance the shadow moves
Since the tree is twice as high as the length of the shadow, we can set up the following equation: 2x = x + 8, where x is the length of the shadow. Solving the equation gives us x = 8 feet, so the length of the shadow that the tree casts is 8 feet.
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