Question

Karli's shadow is 60 inches long. A nearby fire hydrant casts a shadow 40 inches long. If Karli is 48 inches tall, what is the height of the fire hydrant?

Answer 1

use unitary method

Answer 2

the unitary method?? whats that?

Answer 3

wait would it be 28 inches?

Answer 4

no answerbis somthng else

Answer 5

so how do I find the answer? what are the steps?

Answer 6

see when shadow is of 60 inches the body is of 48 inch... (think opposite).. then its clear that when body will be of 48/60 inches then the lenght of shadow would be 1 inch

Answer 7

hmmm, that's really confusing lol

Answer 8

have u studied solving via unitary method

Answer 9

no im in this credit recovery program where they just throw the problems at u and then u just figure em out haha, so I don't know any of this really

Answer 10

visit the website http://www.algebraden.com/unitary_method.htm

Answer 11

have u understood that object of lenght 48/60 inches will cast shadow of 1 inch

Answer 12

not really to be honest

Answer 13

see solve a question
If a bus can carry 28 passengers..then how many buses will be required to carry 224 passengers??

Answer 14

8

Answer 15

yeah now solve this question the same way... forget that there a hydrant or karli

Answer 16

oh so u get.8 then just round up?

Answer 17

i didnt get it

Answer 18

I divided 48/60 and got .8

Answer 19

u forgot somthinng to multiply I guess

Answer 20

just have a look over the solution of the question which i asked u

Answer 21

find the ratio that if you multiply the shadow, it gives you the height.

known ratio = 48/60 and you got .8

multiply 0.8 by karls shadow 0.8 * 60 = 48 you get his height, so we know the raito works.

so now you have the ratio you can multiply this by any shadow and get the height.

height = ratio * shadow
height = 0.8 * 40