SOLUTION: Newly planted trees need to be supported by 3 iron bars. Each iron bar is attached to the trunk of the tree 3m above the ground and the anchored to the ground 4m from the base of t

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Question 1163921: Newly planted trees need to be supported by 3 iron bars. Each iron bar is attached to the trunk of the tree 3m above the ground and the anchored to the ground 4m from the base of the tree. Determine the length of the iron bar needed for 6 newly planted tree.
Answer by greenestamps(13206) About Me  (Show Source):
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Each bar is the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of lengths 3m (the tree) and 4m (the ground), so the length of each bar is 5m.

There are 6 trees, with 3 bars each....

You can do the simple arithmetic.