SOLUTION: a rope stretches from the top of a 20-foot pole to a point ten feet from the bottom of the pole. how long is the rope?
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Question 597378: a rope stretches from the top of a 20-foot pole to a point ten feet from the bottom of the pole. how long is the rope?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use Pythagoras. 
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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