Jane noticed as she was doing her morning run that a 20 m flagpole cast a 25 m shadow. A telephone pole was casting a 35 m shadow. The telephone pole was __? ___ m tall.
The shadow make the object look 1/5 bigger than its actual size. 25*1/5=5 25-5=20 Therefore, for the telephone pole: 35*1/5=7 35-7=28 The telephone pole was 28 m tall.
