SOLUTION: Anne is pulling on a 60-foot rope attached to the top of a 48-foot tree while Walter is cutting the tree at its base. How far from the base of the tree is anne standing?

Question 152780: Anne is pulling on a 60-foot rope attached to the top of a 48-foot tree while Walter is cutting the tree at its base. How far from the base of the tree is anne standing?
Answer by orca(409) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In this problem, The rope, the tree and the line segment connecting the tree base and Anne form a right triangle.
The length of the hypotenuse is 60 ft.
The length of one of its leg is 48 ft
To find the length of another leg, we use Pythagorean Theorem.
Let x be the length of the other leg.

So the distance between the base of the tree and Anne is 36 ft.

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