Question 1065981
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The person's height is x
the shadow is 10
The street light is 25; its shadow is 50.
These are similar triangles, the person, shadow being one, the light and its shadow being the other.  We aren't worried about the hypotenuses.
The person is half the length of the shadow or 5 feet tall.