see the response at
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1443138556
which you posted 3 minutes ago!
A 6-foot person standing 15 feet from a streetlight casts a 15-foot shadow. Two similar triangles are formed. One triangle is formed by the person and the shadow that the person casts. A second triangle is formed by the streetlight and the ground from the base of the streetlight to the end of the shadow.
The street light is ___ times taller than the person
3 answers
Theanswer is 25
steve you are awesome. anonymous you are wrong