Whats the answer to this?

Question

Jack wants to find the height of an olive tree for a science project . Jack is 2 meters tall. He stands 6 meters away from the tree, and his shadow is 4 meters longs . What is the correct proportion?

Answer 1

I interpreted this as Jack couldn't be standing under the shadow of the tree or he wouldn't cast a shadow, but is 6 meters to the side.

The sun would be at the upper right of this diagram.

So 2:4, Jack's height : shadow length as X:2X for the tree's height:shadow length.

We don't know how tall the tree is, but can measure the tree's shadow length.

So the tree is 1/2 the shadow length.

Answer 2

Draw and label a diagram

h represents the height of the tree

2 : 4 :: h : 10

Can you solve for h and answer?