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You are flying your dragon kite.​ It's connected to 40yd of string. The kite is directly above the edge of a pond. The edge of the pond is 36yd from where the kite is tied to the ground. How high is the
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You are flying your dragon kite.​ It's connected to 40yd of string. The kite is directly above the edge of a pond. The edge of the pond is 36yd from where the kite is tied to the ground. How high is the kite above the edge of the​ pond?

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We have a right triangle with hypotenuse 38 and leg 34.

We want to find the other leg.

We use the Pythagorean Theorem:

You are flying your dragon kite.​ It's connected to 40yd of string. The kite is directly-example-1
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