SOLUTION: b. a 13m guy wire runs from a peg on the ground to a point on the telephone pole 14m high. if the peg is 15m from the pole, what is the distance from the top of the pole to the poi
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Question 1031993: b. a 13m guy wire runs from a peg on the ground to a point on the telephone pole 14m high. if the peg is 15m from the pole, what is the distance from the top of the pole to the point where the wire is tied? Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
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Pole is 14 m high
Peg is 15 m from pole
Those are two legs of a right triangle
the distance from the top squared is equal to the sum of the squares of 14 and 15. This is the sum of 196+225=421.
The distance to the top is therefore the square root of 421, or 20.52m. The first is exact, the second is rounded.
