Lorendo needs to run a wire from the top of a telephone pole to a stake on the ground 10 meters from the base of the pole. Does she have enough wire if the pole is 14 meters tall? If not how much does she need?
1 Answer
Oct 30, 2015
She would need
Explanation:
Note: you forgot to mention how much wire Lorendo has.
The amount of wire required (ignoring wire required to wrap around a ground stake and the top of the pole)
is the hypotenuse of a triangle with arms
Using the Pythagorean Theorem (and a calculator) this value is
