Question

A 30ft electric line is suspended between the tops of two 20ft electric poles on level ground. The lowest point of the line is 5ft above the ground. What's the distance between the two electric poles?

Answer 1

Answer:

There is no distance between them

Step-by-step explanation:

For a 30 ft electric line to be placed between two 20ft electric poles, it would take 15 ft of the electric line to go down to about 5 ft above the ground and another 15 ft of the line to go to the top of the second electric pole. This means that a total of 30ft (15 ft + 15 ft) electric line would be needed which is all the cable we have.

For this to be possible then the poles must be adjacent to each other (i.e. no distance between them).