Abuilding casts a shadow 48 ft long. at the same time, a 40 ft tall flagpole casts a shadow 9.6 ft long. what is the height of the building?

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A building casts a shadow 48 ft long. At the same time, a 40 ft tall flagpole casts a shadow 9.6 ft long.

Let the height of the building is h ft .

Now we take ratios and solve for h. That is

Performing cross multiplication,

Dividing both sides by 9.6

Therefore the height of the building is 200 ft .

b.   e = 7.5h

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