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A 2-ft vertical post casts a 20-in shadow at the same time a nearby cell phone tower casts a 115-ft shadow. how tall is the cell phone tower?
the cell phone tower is _ ft


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The height of the cell phone tower will be 138 feet.

What are ratio and proportion?

A ratio is an ordered set of integers a and b expressed as a/b, with b never equaling 0. A proportional is a mathematical expression in which two things are equal.

A 2-ft vertical post casts a 20-in shadow at the same time a nearby cell phone tower casts a 115-ft shadow.

Then the height of the cell phone tower will be

Let x be the height of the cell phone tower.

x / 2 = 115 x 12 / 20

    x = 69 x 2

    x = 138 feet

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