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The wire is 25 feet long is stretched from the top of a flagpole to the ground at a point 15 feet from the base of the pole .how high is the flag pole

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Answer:

20 feet

Explanation:

Using Pythagoras rule:

25^2 - 15^2

625 - 225

400

√400 = 20 feet

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