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mrs_skeptik [129]
3 years ago
7

Two workers tied a 50 foot cable to the top of a pole they were going to cut down. The cable reached 40 feet from the base of th

e pole. How tall was the pole?
Mathematics
1 answer:
nika2105 [10]3 years ago
7 0
The pole had to be 30 feet tall.

When the whole thing was set up, it looked like a right-angled triangle.

As we know, right angled triangles are always in a 3:4:5 ratio, where 5 is the longest side.

In this case we already knew that the longest side was 50, which simplified to 5, and the other side was 40, which simplified to 4. That means because it was a right-angled triangle, the other side had to be 30, which simplified to 3 and completed the ratio.
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The middle term is,  +3x  its coefficient is  3 .

The last term, "the constant", is  +7

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Step-2 : Find two factors of  21  whose sum equals the coefficient of the middle term, which is   3 .

     -21    +    -1    =    -22

     -7    +    -3    =    -10

     -3    +    -7    =    -10

     -1    +    -21    =    -22

     1    +    21    =    22

     3    +    7    =    10

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