Question

The water company installed a 40 yard diagonal brace on a water tower between two vertical beams that are 12 yards apart as shown. Determine the height of each vertical beam.

Answer 1

The lengths of the legs of a right triangle are 15 meters each. The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 50 inches.

Explanation:

Here is thetower it is talking about (illistration)