document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=204104>Question 204104</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Could someone please help me out? I got this far and now am lost.....\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A rope is stretched from the ground to the top of a tower. The wire is 10 ft. long. The height is 2 ft greater than the distance from the towers base to the end of the wire. Find the distance &height.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "r(r+10)=2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "r(r+10)-2=0<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You talk about a rope and then a wire. I'm going to go out on a limb and presume that they are the same object.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What you have is a right triangle where the length of the rope, 10 feet, is the hypotenuse.  Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large r\"> represent the distance from the base of the tower to where the rope meets the ground.  Then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large r + 2\"> must be the height of the tower.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So we can say:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ r^2 + (r + 2)^2 = 10^2 = 100\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thank you, Mr. Pythagoras.  So:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ r^2 + r^2 + 4x + 4 = 100\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 2r^2 + 4r - 96 = 0\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ r^2 + 2r - 48 = 0\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Just solve the quadratic and exclude the negative root.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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