Question

a 6 ft tall tent standing next to a cardboard box casts a 9ft shadow. if the cardboard box cast a shadow that is 6ft long then how tall is it

Answer 1

The cardboard box would be 3 ft because the text is 6 ft and it cast a 9 ft and if you take 3 from 9 you get 6 so take 3 from the 6 ft shadow and you get 3 ft

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Answer 2

the cardboard box is 4 ft.


6ft/9 = x/6 use cross multiplication to solve this

you'll end up with 9x=36

simplify and get 4