Question

You are going to use an incline plane to lift a heavy object to the too of shelving unit with a height of 7 ft. The base if the incline plane is 26 ft from the shelving unit. What is the length of the incline plane? FAST HELPPP MEE PLEASEE IM STUCK

Answer 1

17.46 ft

Explanation:

The inclined plane is in the shape of a right triangle, therefore we can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the inclined plane. The formula for this theorem is the following

`a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)`

Where a and b are the two sides and c is the hypotenuse/inclined side. Therefore, we can simply plug in the lengths of the two sides into the formula and solve for c.

`a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)`

`7^(2) + 16^(2) = c^(2)`

`49 + 256 = c^(2)`

`305 = c^(2)` ... square root both sides

17.46 = c