 A ladder 70 feet long is so planted as to reach a window 40 feet from the ground, on one side of the street, and without moving it at the foot, will reach a window 30 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans.  Plane and Spherical Trigonometry ... - Page 73by Henry W. Jeans - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...only turning it over, without moving the foot out of its place, it will do the same by a window 14 feet high on the other side; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 37 feet 9J. inches. QUEST. 8. The paving of a triangular court, at 18d, per foot, came to 100/.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 442 pages
...only turning it over, without moving the foot out of its place, it will do the same by a window 14 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 37 feet 9| inches. QUEST. 8. The- paving of a triangular court, at 18d. per foot, came to 100/.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...only turning it over, without moving the foot out of its place, it will do the same by a window 14 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 37 feet 9} niches QUEST. 8. The paving of a triangular court, at 18d. pei foot, came to loo/.... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...ground, on one side ; and by turning it over, without removing the bottom, it reached another window 35 feet high, on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street? Ans. 67.79695 feet: 7. A castle wall there was, whose height was found To be I 00 feet from th' top... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1834 - 370 pages
...only turning it over, without moving the foot out of its place, it will do the same by a window 21 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 56 feet 7| inches. 7. In turning a one-horse chaise within a ring of a certain diameter, it... | |
 | Charles Potts - Arithmetic - 1835 - 202 pages
...from the ground on one side of the street, and without moving it at the foot, will reach a window 23 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street? Ans. 103.64 feet. Breadth of the street. THE CUBE ROOT. THE cube of a number is the product of that... | |
 | Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Measurement - 1837 - 284 pages
...only turning it over, without moving the foot out of its place, it will do the same by a window 2 1 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 56 feet 7f inches. 6. In turning a one-horse chaise within a ring of a certain diameter, it... | |
 | Jason M. Mahan - Arithmetic - 1839 - 312 pages
...from the ground, on one side of the street, and without moving it at the foot, will reach a window 60 feet high on the other side — What is the breadth of the street, and what is the distance from one window to the other ? D 68x68=4624 square of ED. 60x60 = 3600 square... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...from the ground, on one side of the street, and without Moving it at the foot, will reach a window 30 feet high on the other side ; what is the breadth of the street ? Ans. 120.69+feet. 45. If an iron wire, i0 inch in diameter, will sustain a weight °f 450 pounds... | |
 | John Hind - Arithmetic - 1840 - 252 pages
...base of the right-angled triangle whose other sides are 4 and s/48. Answer : 4 ^2. and a window 60 feet high on the other side: what is the breadth of the street? Answer: 180 feet, nearly. (4) Of two ships from the same port, one has sailed 50 leagues due east,... | |
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