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Problem #4: Indirect Measurement


Sometimes during innings there are trivia questions on the scoreboard.
One question that may come up is the following:

What is the height of the left-field foul pole?


Note: Earlier that inning they showed the statistics of the left fielder who was 6 1/2 feet tall.
His shadow is 10 feet long.
Knowing that the foul pole casts a shadow about 15 times longer than the left fielder's shadow,
What is the height of this foul pole?

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