Question

At a certain time of day, a 5 foot tall man has an 8 foot shadow. If a tree is 20 feet tall, what is the distance between the tree and the man? image of a 20 foot tree, a 5 foot man forming a single triangle; the man stands between the tree and its opposite corner and is 8 feet from that corner; the total length of the base of the triangle is x

Answer 1

If they're asking the distance between the tree and the man's shadow, that would be 12ft and if they're asking the distance between the tree and the actually man, that would be 15ft :).