A child who is 40” tall is standing next to a statue. If the child’s shadow measures 2 ft and the statute’s shadow measures 5 ft, how many inches tall is the statue?

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we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

the answer is 8/21

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