Question

Jenny is 5 feet 8 inches tall. To find the height h of a light pole, she measured her shadow and the pole’s shadow. What is the height of the pole? Give the height as a mixed number (a whole number and a fraction).

Answer 1

11 1/3

Explanation:

Converted to inches, Jenny is 68 inches tall and the shadow is 93 inches.

The pole's length is 15.5, and 93 divided by 15.5 is 6.

You must divide 68 by 6, and that is 11.3 repeated.

11.3 to a fraction is 11 3/9 simplified is 11 1/3.

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