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Please review the explanation below:

 

Answer: 4

You must recognize similar triangles in the diagram and set up the correct proportion, which could be expressed as: ac over ec is equal to ab over ed.

Letting AB be represented by x and substituting the other measures from the diagram, the proportion is then solved for the unknown measure: 40 over 10 is equal to x over 25.

Cross-multiplying: 10x = 1000

Dividing by 10: x = 100

The final answer is 100 feet.

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