A person 5.4 feet tall stands in line of a shadow cast from the top of the house. The shadow hits the top of the person's head,
and continues until the shadow ends on the ground 2.4 feet from the person's shoes. The distance along the ground from the tip of the shadow to the house is 14.6 feet. Find the height of the house. Do not round your
To solve questions of these sorts, bring all the terms to one side & simplify it leaving x alone in the other side of the equation (other side of the equal to sign). After simplification you'll get the value of x.
Remember that the signs & operations will change when you bring a term to the other side of the equation.
So, addition will become subtraction, subtraction will become addition, multiplication will become division & division will become multiplication.