The sun creates a shadow of a tree that is 14 feet long it also creates a shadow of a 6 ft tall man that is 3.5 feet long how can you use proportions to find out how y’all the tree is

Answer 1

let T = the height of the tree

because the proportion of the man's height to his shadow is equal to the tree's height to its shadow we can write the equation

T/14 = 6/3.5

now multiply both sides buy 14*3.5 and we get 3.5*T = 6*14 or T = 84/3.5 = 24

hence the height of the tree is 24 feet