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Grade 6ChallengeRatios and Rates

Ratios and Rates · Challenge problem

At 2 pm, a girl who is 1.51.5 m tall casts a shadow 22 m long, and a flagpole casts a shadow 1212 m long. At 5 pm, the girl's shadow is 33 m long. How many meters long is the flagpole's shadow at 5 pm? (At any one moment, every shadow is the same number of times as long as the object's height.)