Question 621553: A 6 foot man casts a shadow that is 1 1/2 feet long. At the same time, a tree casts a shadow that is 6 feet long how tall is the tree? Answer by dragonwalker(73) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Luckily we don't have to figure the angle of the sun (which we could from the details given. As the angle will be the same, the relation between the height of the man and his shadow will be the same as the relation between the height of the height of the tree and the length of the shadow.
So The man's shadow is 1.5 feet compared to his height of 6 feet.
This means the height of the man is 6/1.5 more than his shadow.
So if the tree's shadow is 6 feet long the height of the tree will be 6/1.5 times 6 = 24 feet.
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