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A six-foot person walks from the base of a tall tree directly to the tip of the skyscraper's shadow.

A six-foot person walks from the base of a tall tree directly to the tip of the skyscraper's shadow. When the person is 132 feet away from the base of the skyscraper, and 3 feet from the tip of the skyscraper's shadow, and the tip of the person's shadow is at the same point as the tip of the skyscraper's shadow.

a) Draw a right triangle that represents the problem. Label all known quantities of the triangle, and assign a variable to the height of the tree.

b) Write an equation that can be used to solve the height of the tree.

c) What is the height of the tree?

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