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Ravi is 1.82m 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 6.10m from the end of the shadow. How tall is the tree ?

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