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Samantha wants to find the height of a pine tree on her yard.she measures the heigth of the mailbox at tree feet and it shadow at 4.8 feet. Then she measures the shadow of the tree at 56 feet . How tall is the tree?

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3/4.8 = x/56

Cross multiply and solve for x.

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