Two vertical poles, one 16 ft high and the other 24 ft high, stand 30 feet apart on a flat field. A worker wants to support both poles by running rope from the ground to the top of each post. If the worker wants to stake both ropes in the ground at the same point, where should the stakes be placed to use the least amount of rope?

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anonymous · Answer

We can use the pythagorean therom here

30^2 + 4^2 = 34^2

Thke the square root of both sides and you get approximately 30 1/3 feet of rope.

anonymous · Answer

i don't know where you got those numbers for the pythagorean theorem, but i need to know at what point in between the two poles would the stake be placed.

anonymous · Answer

this is a calculus class?

anonymous · Answer

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