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HELP PLEASE!! A man is 6 feet 2 inches tall. To find the height of a tree, the shadow of the man and the shadow of the tree were measured. The length of the man's shadow was 2 feet 1 inch. The length of
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HELP PLEASE!! A man is 6 feet 2 inches tall. To find the height of a tree, the shadow of the man and the shadow of the tree were measured. The length of the man's shadow was 2 feet 1 inch. The length of the tree's shadow was 3 feet 7 inches. What is the height of the tree?

12.9 ft
10.6 ft
14.3 ft
10.9 ft

User Vsevolod Goloviznin
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6ft2inch/2ft1inch=a/3ft7inch

a would be something like 10.9ft

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