Look carefully at the information provided in the picture below. Can you find the height of the red bar in meters?
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The 4-metre shadow on the wall, when cast on the ground, will be 2 3 × 4 = 3 × 2 = 6 metres by proportion. So if the entire shadow of the red bar were cast on the ground, it would be 6 + 6 = 1 2 metres in length, which means its actual height is 3 2 × 1 2 = 2 × 4 = 8 metres.
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From green bar, it's clear that the height of vertical bar = 2/3 of uninterrupted shadow length
Therefore shadow of 6m of red bar indicates the height of 4m. The remaining red bar casts a direct 1:1 vertical projection on the wall.
Therefore total length = 4m + 4m = 8m.