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Edna wants to know the height of a pine treeShe measures the shadow of the pine tree and finds that it is 12 meters long. Edna also knows that a nearby redwood tree that is 8 meters tall is casting a shadow 6 meters long. How tall is the pine tree?

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Answer:

14 meters long

Explanation:

if a 8 meter tree is casting a 6 meter shadow you add 2 meters from the orginal tree you want to measure.

12 meters +2 meters = 14 meters

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