Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/239 - The Bell Rope

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $239$

The Bell Rope

A bell rope, passing through the ceiling above, just touches the belfry floor,

and when you pull the rope to the wall, keeping the rope taut, it touches a point just $3$ inches above the floor,

and the wall was $4$ feet from the rope, when it hung at rest.

How long was the rope from floor to ceiling?

Sources

• 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $239$. -- The Bell Rope
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