TRUE or FALSE: If a skater is skating directly away from a 6 meter tall lamp at 7 meters per second, and you want to calculate the rate at which the skater’s shadow is increasing in length, then you need to know how tall the skater is but you do not need to know how far the skater has skated. Justify your answer.

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TRUE or FALSE: If a skater is skating directly away from a 6 meter tall lamp at 7
meters per second, and you want to calculate the rate at which the skater’s shadow is
increasing in length, then you need to know how tall the skater is but you do not need to
know how far the skater has skated. Justify your answer.

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