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HELP PLEASE!!! ASAP!!!

If a 14 ft. tall adult
giraffe casts a 7 ft. long
shadow, then how tall is a
cardboard box that casts a
4 ft. shadow?

User Fidias
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Answer: 8 feet.

Explanation:

we can see by the first example that the shadow is 1/2 of the height of the original object. so, we just double the height of the shadow to determine the height of the object.

User Radek Simko
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