At 3:00 PM a man 138 cm tall casts a shadow 148 cm long. At the same time, a tall building nearby casts a shadow 199 m long. How
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Let and
be these consecutive integers. For some base
, we can write
If
then
Now,
Squaring both sides gives
and so
(because the base has to be non-zero)