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As the sun rises higher in the sky, the length of the shadow of a tower:
- aincreases
- bdecreases
- cstays the same
- dfirst increases then decreases
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
decreases
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Explanation
A larger angle of elevation gives a larger tangent, and since height ÷ shadow = tan θ with the height fixed, the shadow gets shorter.
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