A pulled tight rope starting from the top of the flagpole and tied to the grounds is 14 meters long if the pole is 6 meters high how far is the rope from the base of the flagpole.
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A pulled tight rope starting from the top of the flagpole and tied to the grounds is 14 meters long if the
Answer:
Since this involves right triangle, use Pythagorean Theorem.
the length of the rope serves as the hypotenuse while
the length of the pole is the length of one leg
Let 'x' be the distance of the base of the pole to the end of the rope
x^2 = 15^2 - 7^2x 2 =15 2 −7 2
x^2 = 176x 2 =176
x = 4 \sqrt{11}x=4 11
or
x = 13.266 meters x=13.266 meters