A light is at the top of a 16 ft pole. A man 6 ft tall walks away from the pole at a rate of 5ftsec (Figure 3). How fast is the tip of his shadow moving when he is 20 ft from the pole?

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A light is at the top of a 16 ft pole. A man 6 ft tall walks away from the pole at a rate of 5ftsec (Figure 3). How fast is the tip of his shadow moving when he is 20 ft from the pole?

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