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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A 30-foot cable is suspended between the tops of two 20-foot poles on level ground. The lowest point of the cable is 5 feet above the ground. What is the distance between the two poles?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Are you study hyperbolic functions?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No, just geometry

OpenStudy (anonymous):

are you leaving out some assumption in your problem statement?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

like (use the arc of a circle to approximate the cable's shape) ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No, that's the full problem

OpenStudy (anonymous):

|dw:1346833585867:dw| Apply Pythagorean theorem to triangle abc

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