A Fifteen-Foot Tree Growing in a Fence Row Is Used

question 46

Multiple Choice

A fifteen-foot tree growing in a fence row is used as a fence post,to which barbed wire is stapled at a height of five feet.Years later,the tree is thirty feet high.The fence is

• A)twenty feet up because it added fifteen feet to the original five-foot height.
• B)split because the trunk grew up but the bottom stayed at ground level.
• C)fifteen feet up because the tree doubled in height.
• D)twenty feet up,still ten feet from the top of the tree.
• E)approximately five feet up since a tree grows longer at the tips of its stem,branches,and roots.

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