You are going to use an incline plane to lift a heavy object to the top of a shelving unit with a height of 6 ft. The base of th

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e incline plane is 10 ft from the shelving unit. What is the length of the incline plane?

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jeka94 · Answer 1 · 2022-06-09T15:56:30+03:00

jeka943 years ago

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Answer:

11.66 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

-This a Pythagorean Theorem problem

-Let X be the length of the incline plane.

#X can be found using the Pythagorean theorem identity:

$b^2+h^2=H^2\\\\6^2+10^2=X^2\\\\X^2=136\\\\X=\sqrt{136}\\\\=11.66\ ft$

Hence, the length of the incline is 11.66 ft