Question

A statue casts a shadow that is 9 ft long. A boy that is 4 ft tall casts a shadow that is 6 ft long. How tall is the statue?

Answer 1

Answer:

6 feet tall.

Step-by-step explanation:

The boy is 4 ft tall, but he casts a 6 ft long shadow. You need to find how long a shadow would be if a person/thing was just 1 ft tall.

To do this, you would need to divide 4 by 4, and 6 by 4 as well.

6/4 is 1.5, or 1 and a half.

If a person (or a thing) is 1 foot tall, the statue will cast 1 and a half feet long shadow.

The statue casts a 9 ft long shadow.

Since we already figured out 1 ft = 1 and 1/2 ft shadow, and since the statue casts a 9 foot long shadow, you need to divide 9 by 1.5.

(You'll get 6.)

This means that the statue is 6 feet tall, and it casts a 9 foot long shadow.