SOLUTION: a telephone pole breaks and falls as shown. to the nearest foot, what was the original height of the pole? 12ft and 5ft are the sides shown.

Question 717917: a telephone pole breaks and falls as shown. to the nearest foot, what was the original height of the pole? 12ft and 5ft are the sides shown.
Answer by tommyt3rd(5050) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming that a=5, b=12
then this triangle is clearly in the

family of right triangles. And since the broken part has to be the hypotenuse, the original length had to be the shortest side and hypotenuse:

l=18ft
RELATED QUESTIONS
A telephone pole breaks and falls as shown. To the nearest foot, what was the original... (answered by macston)

a utility pole breaks and falls. nine feet of the pole remains standing ant the top of... (answered by checkley77)

Two students are 180 feet apart on opposite sides of a telephone pole. The angles of... (answered by solver91311)

A telephone pole was bent over at the point 4/9 of the distance from its base to the top. (answered by mananth)

To find the height of a pole, a surveyor moves 80 feet away, from the base of the pole... (answered by Alan3354)

A telephone pole is to have a guide wire attached to its top and anchored to the ground... (answered by josgarithmetic,mananth)

a telephone pole is to have a guy wire attached to its top and anchored to the ground at... (answered by venugopalramana)

A 62 foot guy-wire makes an angle of 60 degrees with the ground and is attached to a... (answered by jsmallt9)

a 8 foot rope is tied from the top of a pole to a stake in the ground, as shown in the... (answered by ewatrrr)