A boy is flying a kite. The length of the string is 61 meters and thehorizontal distance between the boy and the kite is 60 meters. Assumingthere is no slack in the string, find the height of the kite from the ground.
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Answer:11 metersStep-by-step explanation:Using the Pythagorean Theorema^2 + b^2 = c^2a^2 + 60^2 = 61^2a^2 + 3600 = 3721 (subtract 3600 from both sides)a^2 = 121 (square root both sides so a^2 becomes a)a = 11