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Problem 16



A man had always contemplated the size of a tree behind his house. Standing 5 feet away from his 8 foot high fence, he could barely see the top leaves of the tree over the top of the fence. He knew that the tree was 200 feet from the fence. The man was 6 feet tall, so his line of vision is 67 inches from the ground.

Estimate how tall the tree is.

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