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There is a rope running from the top of a flagpole to a hook in the ground. The flagpole is 8 meters high and the hook is 4 meters from its base. How long is the rope?

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Explanation:

You are looking for the hypotenuse. You have to find the square root of asquared + bsquared. A is the first side, the flag pole, 8. B is the base, the hook is 4 feet from the base of flagpole, so B is 4. The rope is the hypotenuse. Find the square root of asquared + bsquared

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