You are to find the distance from R to the inaccessible point I.

How would you lay out RST so that the length of one of its sides would give you the distance from R to I?

Explain how you could measure CD indirectly by the method suggested in the figure:

A tree on level ground is supported at R by three wires of equal length. The wires are staked to the ground at points X, Y. and Z, which are equally distant from the base of the tree, T. Explain how you can prove that the angles the wires make with the ground are all congruent.

Invert RST from its original position (as shown in the figure below), so that RS would fit the length of one of the sides of RIT, which is RI.

CXD and BXA are vertical angles, and as stated in the Vertical Angle Theorem, vertical angles are congruent. By this theorem, we can now say that CXD is congruent to BXA, making its angles and segments congruent, too. Therefore, the measurement of AB is equal to the measurement of CD.

It is stated in the problem that the wires at points X, Y, and Z that supports the tree at point R, are of equal length and are equally distant to the base of the tree at point T. With the use of the principle, Definition of Congruent Angles, which states that the angles are congruent, if they have equal measures, we can now prove that the angles that the wires make with the ground are all congruent.

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