Please help me understand how I would pick the correct formula for step 1 for the question in the image? I am really confused.

The first option

Step-by-step explanation:

We are doing height above shadow height. Since the telephone poll is 40 feet high with a 32 feet shadow, it is 40/32. We know the sign casts a 12 1/2 shadow, so this will be our denominator. h is our unknown, so we will have h / 12 and a half as our second fraction for our ratio.

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fist on the left goes with the third on the right. second on the left goes with the fourth on the right. third on the left goes with the second on the right. the fourth on the left goes with first on the right

30 miles

step-by-step explanation:

we know that 60 seconds equals 1 minute and 60 minutes 1 hour

44 ft       60 sec     60 min     158400   ft

  *   *   =

1 sec       1 min       1 hour         hour

we know that there are 5280 ft per mile

158400   ft       1 mile         30 miles

  *   =

1   hour               5280 ft     1 hour

so in 1 hour   it can travel 30 miles