SOLUTION: A brick 5cm thick is placed against a wheel for a stop the horizontal distance of face of brick stopping the wheel from the point where the wheel touches the ground is 15cm . what'

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Question 1061382: A brick 5cm thick is placed against a wheel for a stop the horizontal distance of face of brick stopping the wheel from the point where the wheel touches the ground is 15cm . what's the radius of the wheel?
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The Pythagorean theorem says that .






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