Ryan is putting a clothesline in his rectangular backyard. he wants to put it between two trees on the edge of his property. he has measured his property, and made the sketch shown below, where all the lengths listed are in meters. what is the smallest length of rope that ryan could buy which would stretch from one tree to the other?

Answer this two poles, ab and ed, are fixed to the ground with the of ropes ac and ec, as shown: two right triangles abc and edc have a common vertex c. angle abc and edc are right angles. ab is labeled 13 feet, ac is labeled 15 feet, ec is labeled 10 feet, and ed is labeled 4 feet. what is the approximate distance, in feet, between the two poles? 11.14 feet16.65 feet14.35 feet15.59 feet