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A tower casts a shadow of 16m at the same time that a 2.5m post cast a shadow of 4m. How high is the tower?

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A simple ratio will do it:

h/16 = 2.5/4

solve for h

2.5/4 = x/16

Cross multiply and solve for x.

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