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Francisco has a summer job building a rope course at a local park. He wants to secure a rope at a point in a tree where the branches part and leave a nice place from which someone can propel. He needs to find the height of this point but does not have a tape measure long enough. He remembers studying similar figures in Mrs. McNamara's geometry class. The sun is shining so he is able to measure the shadow from the base of the tree to the point where the branches part. He measures this shadow to be 12 feet. He has board in the back of his truck and uses it for a second shadow reference. The six

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