document.write( "Question 732119: a street sign at the end of Dion's street is 8feet high. At a certain time, it casts a shadow of 6 feet long. Dions tied a rope to the top of the sign and fastened it in the ground at the end of the shadow, making a triangle with the sign, the rope, and the shadow. what is the length of the rope
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document.write( "Apply the Pythagorean theorem and get\r\n" );
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document.write( "    the length of the rope =  =  =  = 10 feet.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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