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Pachacha [2.7K]
3 years ago
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A farmer who is 72 inches tall is standing beside a silo that has a height of 140 feet. The length of the silo shadow is 31.5 fe

et. What is the length of a farmer shadow?
Mathematics
1 answer:
OLEGan [10]3 years ago
4 0
This is the concept of linear scale factor:
The length of the farmer shadow will be calculated as follows:
(height of farmer)/(length of farmer shadow)=(height of the silo)/(length of silo shadow)
let the length of farmer shadow be x
height of farmer=72 inches= 6 ft
length of silo shadow=31.5 ft
height of silo=140 ft
therefore plugging the above in the equation we get:
6/x=140/31.5
solving for x we get
x/6=31.5/140
x=31.5/140×6
x=1.35 ft
The length of the farmer shadow is 1.35 ft


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