SOLUTION: On a sunny day when a 6 foot tall person casts a shadow 2 feet 6 inches long a tree cast a 40 foot shadow how tall is the tree

Question 1195778: On a sunny day when a 6 foot tall person casts a shadow 2 feet 6 inches long a tree cast a 40 foot shadow how tall is the tree
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathLover1:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
similar right triangles
setup a proportion
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

a foot tall person casts a shadow feet inches long ()
a tree cast a foot shadow
let the height of the tree be
we know that height of the person and tree are proportional to the length of their shadows

the tree is tall

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