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You are going to use an incline plane to lift a heavy object to the too of shelving unit with a height of 7 ft. The base if the incline plane is 26 ft from the shelving unit. What is the length of the incline plane? FAST HELPPP MEE PLEASEE IM STUCK

You are going to use an incline plane to lift a heavy object to the too of shelving-example-1
User GHP
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Answer:

17.46 ft

Explanation:

The inclined plane is in the shape of a right triangle, therefore we can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the inclined plane. The formula for this theorem is the following


a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)

Where a and b are the two sides and c is the hypotenuse/inclined side. Therefore, we can simply plug in the lengths of the two sides into the formula and solve for c.


a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)


7^(2) + 16^(2) = c^(2)


49 + 256 = c^(2)


305 = c^(2) ... square root both sides

17.46 = c

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