Question

a vertical pole 5 feet long casts a shadow of 2 feet if at the same time a nearby shadow of 10 feet how tall is the tree
From what I could gather from your incomplete sentence, you have two similar triangles created by the pole and the tree.
Use ratios.

x/10 = 5/2
x = 25

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