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.