Two wires are connected
by stakes from the ground to
the top of a vertical pole that
is anchored half way between
the stakes. the stakes are 16
feet apart. each wire is 10
feet long. what is the height
of the pole?

Height of the pole  = 6 feet,

Step-by-step explanation:

We have 2 congruent right angled triangles.

The base of each triangle is  1/2 * 16 = 8 feet and the hypotenuse is 10 feet long.

By Pythagoras:

10^2 = 8^2 + h^2 where h is the height of the pole>

h^2 = 10^2 - 8^2

h^2 = 100 - 64 = 36

h = 6 feet,

false

step-by-step explanation:

false.   two legs of the trapezoid would be congruent, but the other two would not.   were all the legs congruent, then we'd have a square; were the 2 shorter sides congruent and the 2 longer sides also congruent, we'd have a rectangle.