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At 4:00 pm, a tree has a shadow of 48 ft and George, who is 6 ft tall, has a shadow of 16 ft. How tall is the tree?

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Explanation:

16÷6 is equal to 2.66

48×2.66 is equal to 127.68

so the tree is 127.68ft

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