At 6: 00 pm, a flagpole that is 35 feet tall casts a shadow that is 50 feet long. at the same time, how long will a person's shadow be if they are 4 feet tall?
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The length of the person’s shadow is 5.7ft

Explanation:

Length of the flagpole =a= 35ft

Length of the shadow of the flagpole= b=50ft

Length of the person=c= 4ft

Suppose the length of the person’s shadow is=d

According to the  rules of trigonometry

35d=200

d=

d=5.7ft  

Hence, The length of the person’s shadow is 5.7ft.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.