55 foot tall tree casts a shadow that is 32 feet long, a nearby woman is 5.5 feet tall. What is the

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    55 foot tall tree casts a shadow that is 32 feet long, a nearby woman is 5.5 feet tall. What is the length of shadow she will cast?

    Set up a proportion of height to shadow length where s is the shadow length of the woman:
    55/32 = 5.5/s

    Typing this proportion into our search engine, we get:
    s = 3.2
     

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