Question 732119
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A street sign at the end of Dion's street is 8feet high. At a certain time, it casts a shadow of 6 feet long. 
Dion tied a rope to the top of the sign and fastened it in the ground at the end of the shadow, making a triangle 
with the sign, the rope, and the shadow. what is the length of the rope
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Apply the Pythagorean theorem and get


    the length of the rope = {{{sqrt(8^2 + 6^2)}}} = {{{sqrt(64+36)}}} = {{{sqrt(100)}}} = 10 feet.    <U>ANSWER</U>
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