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The shadow of the building is 16 m long, and the shadow of the vertical meter rod is 0.8 m long at the same time. What is the height of the building?
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- geometry
- similarity of triangles
- algebra
- expression of a variable from the formula
- planimetrics
- triangle
- basic functions
- ratio
- simple proportion
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