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1.
A tree 24 feet tall casts a shadow 12 feet long. Daniel is 6 feet tall. How long is Daniel's shadow?
2.
A 40-foot flagpole casts a 25-foot shadow. Find the shadow cast by a nearby building 200 feet tall.
3.
A tower casts a shadow 7 m long. A parking meter casts a shadow 0.8 m long. If the parking meter is 1.2 m high, how high
is the tower?
4.
A tree with a height of 4m casts a shadow 15 m long on the ground. How high is another tree that casts a shadow which is 20
m long?
5.
Morgan is 4 ft 10 inches tall and casts a shadow that is 6 ft 2 inches. How tall is a nearby tree that casts a 10 foot shadow?
6.
Anna is going to measure the flagpole. She places a mirror on the ground and backs up 4 ft 9 inches until she spots the top of
the pole in the center of the mirror. If Anna is 5 ft 2 inches tall and the flagpole is 21 ft 4 inches from the mirror, how high is
the flagpole?
7.
A park ranger measuring a giant redwood walks 72 feet and drives a 5 ft stake into the ground. He continues along the same
path 3 feet until he then lines the stake and tree top in his mirror. How tall is the tree?
8.
βˆ†π΄π΅πΆ~βˆ†π·πΈπΉ. If AB = 8, AC = 21 and BC = 14, find the shortest side of βˆ†π·πΈπΉ if the longest side is 52.
9.
A rectangular soccer field is 120 yards long by 64 yards wide. What dimensions would a scale drawing of the soccer field be
if the field were drawn using the scale ¼ inch = 10 feet?
10. Triangles 𝐸𝐹𝐺 and 𝑄𝑅𝑆 are similar. The lengths of the sides of βˆ†πΈπΉπΊ are 144, 128, and 112. The length of the smallest side
of QRS is 280, what is the length of the longest side of βˆ†π‘„π‘…π‘†?
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