Question

A 6-foot spruce tree is planted 15 feet from a lighted streetlight whose lamp is 18 feet above the ground. How many feet long is the shadow of that tree?
The answer would be 7.5 :-)
could you tell me how you got that answer?
6/x = 18/(15+x)
6(15+x) = 18x
90+6x = 18x
12x = 90
x = 7.5

Does this help? :-)
yes! thank you! I have another but I don't know how to put the picture into one of these boxes :)It's suppose to be a big triangle... In the figure below, the lengths of DE, EF, and FG are given, in units. What is the area, in square units, of triangle DEG?
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D 12 7 F

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