What is the longest flagpole ( in whole feet) that could be shipped in a box that measures 2ft by 2 ft by 12 ft
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Please consider the attached file.
We can see that triangle JKM is a right triangle, with right angle at M. Segment KM is 6 units and segment MJ is 3 units. We can also see that KJ is hypotenuse of right triangle.
We will use Pythagoras theorem to solve for KJ as:
Now we will take positive square root on both sides:
Therefore, the length of line segment KJ is and option D is the correct choice.
