SOLUTION: Sorry looked for the Similar triangle section hope this is right
Rina lives in an apartment building that is 800 m high. The building casts a shadow that is 900 m long. The shad
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Question 1182037: Sorry looked for the Similar triangle section hope this is right
Rina lives in an apartment building that is 800 m high. The building casts a shadow that is 900 m long. The shadow of the neighbouring apartment building is 1200 m long. Find the height of the neighbouring building, to the nearest metre using similar triangles.
Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Regarding the height of the highest/tallest buildings in the world, look in the table at this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings
to ensure that there are no buildings higher/taller than 828 meters on the Earth.
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On solving such problems using proportions, learn from the lesson
- Typical problems on proportions, Problem 1
in this site.
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