Question 1193366: Draw diagrams wherever necessary. Round off your final answers up to 2 decimal places.
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.
• Draw a diagram describing the given problem.
• What is the distance traveled by the “flying” bell pepper?
Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
In order to find the distance between the starting and ending points in this problem, apply the cosine law.
Notice that this straight line distance IS NOT a TRAVELED DISTANCE,
but it is EXACTLY that distance which should be found in this problem.
It is INCORRECTLY to call this distance "the traveled distance".
The traveled distance in this problem is the length of the part of parabola,
while the distance between the endpoints is the length of the straight line interval.
Learn to formulate your problems correctly / (in a right way . . . )
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