document.write( "Question 799786: this is for geometry but i hope you'll answer. please with solution..\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The length of the longest stick would be the hypotenuse of a right triangle where the legs are the height of the cube and the diagonal across the base of the cube.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The diagonal across the base of the cube is the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle with legs measuring 10, therefore having a length of

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Arithmetic left as an exercise for the student. Left in radical form, this is the exact answer presuming that the \"stick\" has a zero thickness, in other words has the dimensions of a geometric line. Any thickness at all would have to be accounted for by other computations that are somewhat more complex than those presented here.\r
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