SOLUTION: A pole-vaulter uses a 15- foot-long pole. She grips the pole so that the segment below her left hand is twice the length of the segment above her left hand. Her right hand grips th

Question 154592: A pole-vaulter uses a 15- foot-long pole. She grips the pole so that the segment below her left hand is twice the length of the segment above her left hand. Her right hand grips the pole 1.5 feet above her left hand. How far up the pole is her right hand?
Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
her left hand divides the pole into 2/3 and 1/3, so her left hand is 10 (2/3 of 15) ft up the pole

her right hand is 1.5 ft above her left, or 11.5 ft up the pole
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