The wire, the pole and the segment joining the leg of the pole to the wire in the ground form a right triangle whose hypotenuse is the wire, and the side opposite to the angle 36° is the pole.
By right triangle trigonometry, sin36°=(opposite side)/(hypotenuse.)
Substituting, we have 0.588=(opposite side)/220, thus the length of the opposite side, which represents the length of the pole, is
