Syed, who is 1.64 m tall, wishes to find the height of a tree with a...

 

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Syed, who is 1.64 m tall, wishes to find the height of a tree with a shadow 35.12 m long. He walks 21.45 m from the base of the tree along the shadow of the tree until his head is in a position where the tip of his shadow exactly overlaps the end of the tree top's shadow. How tall is the tree? Round to the nearest hundredth. Syed, who is 1.64 m tall, wishes to find the height of a tree with a shadow 35.12 m long. He walks 21.45 m from the base of the tree along the shadow of the tree until his head is in a position where the tip of his shadow exactly overlaps the end of the tree top's shadow. How tall is the tree? Round to the nearest hundredth.

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