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A fisherman if fishing off a three foot dock with a 15 foot pole.  He casts out 50feet of fishing line.  assuming he is holding the pole straight up what is the horizontal distance from the dock to the place where the line meetsthe water?

 

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Preview: ... right triangle is formed by x and the pole and the line being the hypo ...
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Preview: ... er. So, c 2 = a 2 + b 2 where c is 50 feet and let 'a' be the vertical side of 15 feet, so we solve for 'b' the horizontal side from the fisherman to the point where the line enters the water: b =sqrt[50 2 -15 2] = sqrt[2500 - 225] = sqrt[2275] = 47.7 feet But based up ...
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