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Ravi is `1.82` m tall. He wants to find the height of a tree in his backyard, From the tree’s base he walked `12.20` m along the tree’s shadow to a position where the end of his shadow exactly overlaps the end of the tree’s shadow. He is now `6.10` m from the end of the shadow. How tall is the tree?

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5.46 m
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