Question

A telephone pole breaks and falls as shown to the nearest foot what is the value of X that original height of the pool is 15 feet 5ft. 10 ft X.ft

Answer 1

18ft

Explanation:

Assuming that a=5, b=12

then this triangle is clearly in the

5-12-13

family of right triangles. And since the broken part has to be the hypotenuse, the original length had to be the shortest side and hypotenuse:

l=5%2B13=18

l=18ft