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a) A 6 foot man is standing atop a 9 foot wall The distance along the hypotenuse from the top
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a) A 6 foot man is standing atop a 9 foot wall The distance along the hypotenuse from the top
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Question 855639: Our math teacher gave me this problem with no to little explanation. Please help.
a) A 6 foot man is standing atop a 9 foot wall The distance along the hypotenuse from the top of the man's head to the ground is 17 feet. Kneeling children are lined up at the base of the wall. Each kneeling child takes up 1 foot of horizontal space. How many children can kneel along the bottom of the triangle? Assume the wall and the man are vertical, forming a right angle with the ground.
b)The man jumps off the original wall and 4 children are removed from the left side of the line. A new triangle is formed. What is the length of the hypotenuse of the new triangle measured from the top of the wall to the ground?
c) Each child on the ground (from the original triangle in part a) lies down to toe, taking up 3 feet each. The 6 foot man is still standing on top of the wall, but the wall is shorter now. If the distance along the hypotenuse from the top of the man's head to the ground is exactly 26 feet, what is the new exact height of the wall? Answer by fcabanski(1391) (Show Source):
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