Problema Solution
A 40- foot flagpole casts a 25-foot shadow. Find the shaddow cast by a nearby building 200 feet tall
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let 'x' represent the shadow cast by the 200 ft tall building
40 : 25 = 200 : x
by solving we find:
x = 125 ft
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the shadow cast by the 200 ft building is 125 ft long.