Abuilding casts a 50-foot shadow. alex is 5 feet tall and casts a 6-foot shadow. approximately how tall is the building?
a. 60 ft
b. 24 ft
c. 50 ft
d. 42 ft i know its not a or c

Option d is correct.

42 ft(Approximately) tall is the building.

Step-by-step explanation:

Proportion states that the two ratios or fractions are equal.

As per the statement: A building casts a 50-foot shadow.

Also, Alex is 5 feet tall and casts a 6-foot shadow.

⇒ Height of the Alex = 5 ft , Shadow of Alex = 6 ft and Shadow of the building= 50 ft.

Let height of the building be h.

Then, by definition of proportion,

Substitute the given values we get;

By cross multiply we get;

Divide both sides by 6 we get;

Therefore, height of the building (approximately) is, 42 ft

false

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false.   two legs of the trapezoid would be congruent, but the other two would not.   were all the legs congruent, then we'd have a square; were the 2 shorter sides congruent and the 2 longer sides also congruent, we'd have a rectangle.

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