Afive foot boy casts a 2 foot shadow. at the same time the shadow of the court house tower is 25 feet in length. how tall is the court house tower

The court house tower is 62.5 feet tall

Step-by-step explanation:

A five foot boy casts a 2 foot shadow.

Height of boy = 5 feet

Height of shadow of boy = 2 feet

So ratio of original height to shadow height is 2.5.

Now we need to find how tall is the court house tower, if its shadow is 25 feet.

The court house tower is 62.5 feet tall

ruth is 6 years old

step-by-step explanation:

6 + 24 = 30,   so 6/30 = .2  

if you do 1/5 it also equals .2, so that is the answer.

twenty-six miles over two gallons because the proportion for the original 13 miles to one gallon would be written 13/1 and, doing the same thing to the top and bottom, i multiplied by 2 and got 26/2