SOLUTION: on a level ground,a meter stick and a building cast a shadows of length 0.75 and 90 m .How high is the building
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! we have two triangles
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we use proportions of the two triangles to solve for h
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let h be the height of the building, then
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(h / 90) = (1 / 0.75)
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cross multiply fractions
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0.75h = 90
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h = 120 meters
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The building is 120 meters high
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