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A 5.5 foot man walks away from a 12 fokt lampost at a constant speed. At a given moment, let l be the length of the man's shadow (along the ground) and ket x be his distance from the lampost.

Sketch a figure that represents the problem
Express l in terms of x
9 years ago

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Steve
did you do the sketch? It should be clear that

l/5.5 = (x+l)/12

no crank it out. Algebra I, babe.
9 years ago

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