How To Solve Amazon’s Hanging Cable Interview Question

A cable of 80 meters (m) is hanging from the top of two poles that are both 50 m from the ground. What is the distance between the two poles, to one decimal place, if the center of the cable is (a) 20 m above ground? (b) 10 m above ground? Chatterjee, Neil, and Bogdan G. Nita. “The hanging cable problem for practical applications.“ Atlantic Electronic Journal of Mathematics 4.1 (2010). Careercup Amazon question Subscribe: Send me suggestions by email (address in video). I consider all ideas though can’t always reply! Why are there comments before the video is published? Get early access and support the channel on Patreon If you buy from the links below I may receive a commission for sales. This has no effect on the price for you.