a recipe calls for 3 ounces of flour for every 2 ounces of sugar. Find the constant of proportionality.
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SOLUTION
Let us use a simple diagram to interprete the question
In the diagram above, the dark stuff below represents the shadow and the rectangular bar represents the building. I have labelled the height of the building as h.
So we will use the right-angled triangle formed to find h
As we can see h represents the opposite side and 56.5 feet represents the adjacent side of the right-angle triangle. So we will use TOA
So we have
Hence the answer is 104.9 feet to the nearest tenth
