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Leni [432]
3 years ago
14

a monument casts a 40-foot shadow. Adam is 6 feet tall and casts a 5-foot shadow. How tall is the monument

Mathematics
2 answers:
Stolb23 [73]3 years ago
4 0
This is a proportion problem. Let the monument me x feet tall.
40/x=5/6
Cross multiply:
240=5x
x=48 ft.
So the monument is 48 ft tall,  
Svetllana [295]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

48\ ft

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

Adam is 6 feet tall and casts a 5-foot shadow

A monument casts a 40-foot shadow

so

by proportion

Find how tall is the monument

Let

x------> the height of the monument

\frac{6}{5}=\frac{x}{40}\\ \\ x=40*6/5\\\\x=48\ ft

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