Question #b6fe0

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Feb 23, 2015

Start with a diagram of the situation (note the diagram below is not to scale)

Then apply basic geometric and trigonometric relations.

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Being basically lazy, I plugged this stuff into a spreadsheet to do the calculations:
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So (assuming I haven't messed up) the required wire length is (just over) 52 feet.