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I didn’t understand the question but what’s the answer?

I didn’t understand the question but what’s the answer?-example-1
User Rajinweb
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The length of the shadow of the object on the building when the object is 6 meters away from the wall is 2.4 meters.

To solve this problem, we can use similar triangles. Let the length of the shadow of the object on the building be x meters. We have two similar triangles:

The first triangle has sides of length 4 meters, 9 meters, and x meters. The second triangle has sides of length 6 meters, 9 meters, and x+3 meters.

We can set up the following proportion:


(4)/(9) = (x)/(x+3)

Multiplying both sides of the equation by x+3, we get:

4x+12 = 9x

Subtracting 4x from both sides of the equation, we get:

12 = 5x

Dividing both sides of the equation by 5, we get:

x =
(12)/(5) = 2.4

Therefore, the length of the shadow of the object on the building when the object is 6 meters away from the wall is 2.4 meters.

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