Question

A monkey is chained to a stake in the ground. The stake is 3.00 m from a vertical pole, and the chain is 4.28 m long. How high can the monkey climb up the pole?

Answer 1

3.05 m

Step-by-step explanation:

The Pythagorean theorem tells you the other leg of this right triangle is ...

a^2 +b^2 = c^2

a^2 +3^2 = 4.28^2

a = √(4.28^2 -3^2) = √9.3184

a ≈ 3.053

The monkey can climb about 3.05 meters up the pole.