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A man who is six feet tall casts a shadow fifteen feet long at the same time a shadow of a tree

measures seventy-five feet. How many feet tall is the tree?

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The tree is 30 feet tall
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Answer:

The tree is thirty feet tall (30)

Explanation:

So you divide 6 by 15 and you get .4

Then you multiply .4 by 75

And then you have 30

which the answer is 30

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