A 5-foot tall student stands 15 feet from a flagpole. The student casts a shadow 6 feet long which ends at exactly the same point

as the shadow of the flagpole.

How many feet tall is the flagpole, to the nearest tenth of a foot?

17.5 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

Draw a picture as shown in the attached image. From the image, you can see that a proportion can be set up comparing the height of the flagpole and student to their respective shadows. Once you set up the proportion, solve to get the height of the flagpole.

describing distributions is one of the key skills you’ll need to earn a high score on the ap statistics exam. if you need proof of this, just flip through some past exam questions, which can be found at the collegeboard website. you’ll notice that the first free response question is almost always a question requiring you to look at a graph and describe it.

step-by-step explanation: just trying to get points sorry : (