Question

A building with a height of 40 m casts a shadow that is 30 m long. a statue next to the building casts a shadow that is 6 m long. how tall is the statue

Answer 1

Use a scale factor to solve this.

The scale of the building to the statue is 1/5 (6/30 = 1/5). We'll multiply 40 by 1/5 to get the height of 8m.

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