Problema Solution

Isaiah is raising the flag in the school yard. He knows that the flagpole is 20 feet tall. He wants to know the height of the office building across the street. He measures the shadow cast by the building to be 31 feet and the shadow cast by the flagpole to be 8 feet. How tall is the office building to the nearest foot?

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it will be shadow/ real = 0.8/20 = 31/x ==> x will be 78 feet