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A rope is stretched tight between the tops
of two flag poles. One pole is 16 m tall, the
other is 8 m tall and they stand on level
ground 6 m apart. Find the rope's length.
m

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Answer:

10 m.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have a triangle with hypotenuse h m (the rope's length) and one leg 16 -  8  = 8 m and the other 6 m.

So h^2 = 8*2 + 6^2 = 100

h = 10 m.