Question

Two poles are located 3.2m apart. A wire links the tops of the two poles. Find the length of the wire if the poles are 3.8m and 6m in height. (one decimal place)

Answer 1

considering the diagram,the top part is a triangle with the base of 3.2m and height of 2.2m. since the triangle 8s is a right angle triangle. we use Pythagoras theorem to solve for the hypotenus