Question

a person who is 70 inches tall cast a shadow that is 54 inches long. if a tree casts a shadow that is 28 feet long at the same time, then how tall is the tree to the nearest foot

Answer 1

36 ft

Explanation:

Since 70 inches tall person cast a shadow that is 54 inches long. Then using similarity and enlargement, we need to know rhe actual height of a tree tgat casts a shadow that is 28 feet

By cross multiplication

If 70 inches leads to 54 inches shadow

X feet leads to 28 feet shadow

X=28 feet*70 inches/54 inches=36.296296296296

Rounding off to the nearest ft, this is approximately 36 ft