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A cell phone tower cats a 100-foot shadow.At the same time,a 4 foot 6 inch post near the tower casts a shadow of 3 feet 4 inches.Find the height of the tower ...?
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A cell phone tower cats a 100-foot shadow.At the same time,a 4 foot 6 inch post near the tower casts a shadow of 3 feet 4 inches.Find the height of the tower ...?

User Adam Jacob Muller
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The height of the Tower will be 194.117647 feet.


User Julesezaar
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We can set up a ratio of the height of the actual objects to the length of their shadows in order to obtain the height of the tower. Let h be the tower height.
h/100 = 4.5 / 3.33
h = 135 feet
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