Lookout tower
Calculate the height of a lookout tower forming a shadow of 36 m if a column 2.5 m high has a shadow of 1.5 m simultaneously.
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- geometry
- similarity of triangles
- planimetrics
- triangle
- basic functions
- ratio
- simple proportion
- numbers
- fractions
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