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While admiring a rather tall tree, Fred notes that the shadow of his 6 ft frame has a length of 3 paces. On the level ground, he walks off the complete shadow of the tree in 48 paces. How tall (in feet) is the tree? Use similar triangles.

Polygon with three sides, three angles, and three vertices. Based on the properties of each side, the types of triangles are scalene (triangle with three three different lengths and three different angles), isosceles (angle with two equal sides and two equal angles), and equilateral (three equal sides and three angles of 60°). The types of angles are acute (less than 90°); obtuse (greater than 90°); and right (90°).

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