A wire is stretched from the gound to the top of an antenna tower. The wire is 25 feet long. The height of the tower is 5ft greater than the distance d from the tower's base to the end of the wire. Find the distance and the height of the tower.
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same solution technique as the other one ... just plug in the new numbers
better yet, consider a scaled-up 3-4-5 right triangle.
Scale it up by a factor of 5 and you have 15-20-25 which fits the bill.
Scale it up by a factor of 5 and you have 15-20-25 which fits the bill.