Question

PLEASE HELP ME I'M BEING TIMED!!
Jim is trying to determine the height of a flagpole using shadows. Jim is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 9 feet long. At the same time of day, and at the same position, the flagpole's shadow is 60 feet long. How tall is the flagpole?

The flagpole is____feet tall.

Answer 1

Answer:

57 feet tall

Step-by-step explanation:

As you can see Jim is 6 feet tall and his shadow only goes up three more feet. Why don't you do the same with the shadow of the Flagpole. Or use multiplication you see here Jim's height is the answer to the multiplication problem 3X2 just go up once and multiply 3X3 and you will get Jim's shadow. Same with the flag pole 3x20 is 60 and this time you will multiply down wards because as you can see the shadow height for Jim is larger then Jim's actual height.

Answer 2

X=40 is the correct answer and here’s the work