Question

15 POINTS!!! Solve the problem. Type the number in the box that correctly completes the sentence.

Nimrod wanted to build a tower three miles high. He wants to know how far would it be from the top of his tower to a point four miles away from the base of the tower. The distance would be Answer
miles.

Answer 1

5 Miles

Explanation:

Given, Height of the tower is 3 miles and the distance from the base is 4 miles.

According the Pythagoras Theorem, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the lengths of other two sides of the right-angled triangle.

So, putting the data in Pythagoras theorem, let's consider A= 3 and B= 4.

So C will be,

sqrt(A^2 + B^2 )= C

Or, sqrt( 3^2+ 4^2)= C

Or, sqrt( 9+ 16) = C

Or, sqrt(25) = C

Hence, C = 5

So, The distance would be 5 Miles.