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A smokestack of a factor casts a 35-meter shawdow at the same time as a 10- meter utility pole casts a 6.3-meter shadow. What is the height of the smokestack? show your work.

 May 5, 2015

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You can use the proportion:  height/shadow  =  height/shadow

                                         height/35  =  10/6.3

Multiply both sides by 35:         height  =  (10/6.3)(35)  =  55.6 m

 May 5, 2015
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Best Answer

You can use the proportion:  height/shadow  =  height/shadow

                                         height/35  =  10/6.3

Multiply both sides by 35:         height  =  (10/6.3)(35)  =  55.6 m

geno3141 May 5, 2015

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