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Karolina [17]
3 years ago
7

John is 5ft tall and is standing in the light of a 15ft lamppost. His shadow is 4ft long. He walks 1ft father away from the lamp

post, by how many feet will his shadow lengthen?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Dennis_Churaev [7]3 years ago
3 0

The shadow lengthened by 2.25 ft.

<u>Step-by-step explanation:</u>

Height of the lamppost is not needed here.

We can write the ratio as,

5 /4 = x/5

25 = 4x

x = 25/ 4

Now it is not needed to find the length of the new shadow, and so, we need to find the length of the added shadow.

25 / 4 - 16/ 4 = 25 - 16 / 4 = 9/4 = 2.25 ft

Length of the new shadow is 25/ 4 = 6.25 ft

So length of new shadow - length of old shadow = 6.25 - 4 = 2.25 ft shadow lengthened

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