SOLUTION: If you are flying a kite 225 feet away from a group of 70 foot trees, how much line would it take to get to the top of the trees? Take into consideration that you hold the kite 4 f

Question 616133: If you are flying a kite 225 feet away from a group of 70 foot trees, how much line would it take to get to the top of the trees? Take into consideration that you hold the kite 4 feet from the ground. Draw a diagram of the situation to help set up the problem.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you are flying a kite 225 feet away from a group of 70 foot trees, how much line would it take to get to the top of the trees? Take into consideration that you hold the kite 4 feet from the ground. Draw a diagram of the situation to help set up the problem.
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If you drew the picture, you have a right triangle
with base = 225 and height = 70-4 = 66 ft
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Use Pytagoras to get the hypotenuse:
h^2 = 225^2 + 66^2
h^2 = 54981
line = h = sqrt(54981) = 234.48
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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