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To obtain the height of a tree you measure the tree's shadow and find that it is 8 meters long the shadow of a two-meter lamppost and find that it is 75 centimeters long how tall is the tree?
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∙ 16y ago
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Lisa Schaefer
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∙ 16y agoif the lamppost is 200 cm and the shadow is 75cm you have a division of 75/200 = 8/x then you just solve for x(height of the tree) so (200 x 8)/75 equals 21.3333333
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