A moving conveyor is built to rise 1 meter for every 7 meters of horizontal change. Suppose the conveyor runs between two floors in a factory.Find the length of the conveyor if the vertical distance between floors is 10 meters.

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A moving conveyor is built to rise 1 meter for every 7 meters of horizontal change. Suppose the conveyor runs between two floors in a factory.Find  the length of the conveyor if the vertical distance between floors is 10 meters.

anonymous · Answer

I'm getting 70.71, so ~71, which is one of the answer choices, however I'm not sure if that's correct. :c

jdoe0001 · Answer

well, the for every meter it goes UP, it goes 7 meters FORWARD
after 10 meters UP, it'd have gone 7 * 10 FORWARD|dw:1377373456898:dw|

use the pythagorean theorem