SOLUTION: To determine a height of a flag pole, a student uses a metre stick and the measures lengths of the shadows cast by his friend and the flagpole. He finds that his 1.5m tall friend c
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Question 1167452: To determine a height of a flag pole, a student uses a metre stick and the measures lengths of the shadows cast by his friend and the flagpole. He finds that his 1.5m tall friend casts a 1.2m shadow at the same time that the flagpole’s shadow is 9.75m long. Label the diagram below and determine how tall is the flagpole (to 1 decimal place)? Include a concluding statement.
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