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If 6-foot-tall Madeleine casts an 108-inch shadow, how tall is her friend if, at the time, his shadow is 1.5 feet shorter than hers.thank you ! :)

If 6foottall Madeleine casts an 108inch shadow how tall is her friend if at the time his shadow is 15 feet shorter than hersthank you class=

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SOLUTION:

We would use similar triangle relations to solve this;

We have the triangles set up , thus;

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{x}{6}=\frac{7.5}{9} \\ x=5\text{ ft} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore, her friend is 5 feet tall.

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