SOLUTION: You are standing 15 feet away from a streetlight, casting a shadow that reaches to a distance of 30 feet from the light. If you are six feet tall, how tall is the street light?
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Question 1033328: You are standing 15 feet away from a streetlight, casting a shadow that reaches to a distance of 30 feet from the light. If you are six feet tall, how tall is the street light? Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If you draw the diagram, you can see that you cast a 15 foot shadow...we can solve this using a proportion...
Cross-multiply and solve, we get
15x = 180
x = 12 feet tall
