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A scuba diver has a taut rope connecting the dive boat to an anchor on the ocean floor. The rope is 120 feet long. The wate
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Question 476222: How would you write and solve this as a word problem?
A scuba diver has a taut rope connecting the dive boat to an anchor on the ocean floor. The rope is 120 feet long. The water is 65 feet deep. To the nearest tenth of a foot, how far is the anchor from a point directly below the boat?
This is what I tried before:
I put this in a triangle form and tried to use trigonometric ratios to solve, but that didn't work. I tried putting the triangle in a regular ratio but that did not work either. Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source):
