Homework Help: math

Posted by Tiffany on Friday, March 1, 2013 at 9:16am.

A woman 5ft 6in tall stands so that the tip of her shadow coincides with the tip of the shadow of a tall tree. The woman stands 18 ft from the tip of her shadow and 100 ft from the base of the tree. How tall is the tree?

math - Steve, Friday, March 1, 2013 at 11:02am
h/5.5 = 100/18

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