Aguy wire (a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure) is attached to a telephone pole whose height is 25 ft. if the wire is attached to the ground at a point 15 ft away from the base of the pole, what is the slope of the wire?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.