document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1193366>Question 1193366</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Draw diagrams wherever necessary. Round off your final answers up to 2 decimal places.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "One fateful afternoon, Millie sat on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. As an act of mischief, she suddenly threw a bell pepper at Elira who was reading manga while sitting on a bench 6 m from the base of the tower. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 56 meters tall on average and is leaning 4° from the vertical. Note that the tower was leaning toward the area where Elira was.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "• Draw a diagram describing the given problem.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "• What is the distance traveled by the “flying” bell pepper? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "In order to find the distance between the starting and ending points in this problem, apply the cosine law.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Notice that this straight line distance IS NOT a TRAVELED DISTANCE,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "but it is EXACTLY that distance which should be found in this problem.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is INCORRECTLY to call this distance \"the traveled distance\".\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The traveled distance in this problem is the length of the part of parabola,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "while the distance between the endpoints is the length of the straight line interval.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Learn to formulate your problems correctly / (in a right way . . . )\r<BR>\n" );
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