SOLUTION: The telephone cable in the illustration currently runs from A to B to C to D. How much cable (in yards) is required to run from A to D directly? 51 yd103 yd72 yd An image contain

Question 1154473: The telephone cable in the illustration currently runs from A to B to C to D. How much cable (in yards) is required to run from A to D directly?
51 yd103 yd72 yd
An image contains a picture of a house, two black rays, three red labeled line segments, one blue dashed line and four labeled points.
The house is located at the top right of the image.
The two black rays, one pointing up and one pointing right, intersect in the lower left of the image. The ray pointing right is labeled East and the ray pointing up is labeled North.
Point A is located at the intersection of North and East. Point B is some distance above point A and lands on North. Point C is to the right of point B. Point D is above point C and directly in front of the house.
A dashed blue line segment connects point A to point D.
The red line segment that connects point A to point B is labeled 103 yd. The red line segment that connects point B to point C is labeled 72 yd. The red line segment that connects point C to point D is labeled 51 yd. PLEASE JUST GIVE ME THE ANSWER NOT THE FORMULA I NEED IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The last line of your post (in CAPITAL LETTERS, to draw my immediate attention) shows me your desire is simply to have us give you the answer to your problem so you don't have to do the work yourself and maybe learn something from doing it.

At a quick glance at the rest of the post, I suspect the description will be difficult or impossible to understand; so I didn't look at it closely.

But there was no need for me to try to read it, because our purpose on this forum is not to do your work for you.

Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Dear visitor ! Let read your post together. The problem says that there is the telephone cable from A to D. Notice that the problem says about ONE cable --- not about some set of cables. Next, the problem tells us about different parts of this cable - from A to B has the length of 103 yd. - from B to C has the length of 72 yd. - from C to D has the length of 51 yd. Should I continue ? It seems to me that at this point any, every and each person with a bit of common sense in his mind just knows how to get answer. Simply add the three given numbers. What else you can do with them ?

Have a good rest after reading my post (!)

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Your description of the cable placement on the plane was very picturesque.

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