Brianna is planting a sapling. The garden center recommends she stabilize the sapling with guy wires for the first few months after planting. If Brianna places the guy wires 20 meters up the trunk of the sapling and 60 meters from the base, how much total wire, to the nearest tenth of a foot would she need for two guy wires?
The length of the wire needed for one guy wire is the square root of (20^2 + 60^2) = 62.4 meters. Therefore, the total length of wire needed for two guy wires is 2 * 62.4 = 124.8 meters, which is approximately 409.4 feet to the nearest tenth of a foot.
