The mast
A 40 m high mast is secured in half by eight ropes 25 m long. The ends of the ropes are equidistant from each other. Calculate this distance.
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You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- right triangle
- circle
- polygon
- triangle
- goniometry and trigonometry
- sine
- cosine
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