Brant Callaway, Tommy DePriest and Katie Pinson are three students in my Advanced Algebra & Trigonometry class. Collectively, they presented the following solution using a graphical approach:
The top of the flagpole would travel in
a circular arc if the pole fell. They graphed the circle with
equation and checked to see if the point
(18, 16) was located on the exterior of the circle.
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