standard_description: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
problem_activity: Lily and Ravi are visiting the Redwood Forest in California. They want to measure the height of one of the trees, but they can’t climb it. However, they are able to measure the shadow of the tree. They determine the shadow of the tree is
$$583{1\over3}$$
feet long.
If Ravi is 6 feet tall and they determine his shadow is 10 feet long, find the height of the redwood tree.


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