Designing a gondola The designer of a 30-ft-diameter spherical hot air balloon wants to...

Designing a gondola The designer of a 30-ft-diameter spherical hot air balloon wants to suspend the gondola 8 ft below the bottom of the balloon with cables tangent to the surface of the balloon, as shown. Two of the cables are shown running from the top edges of the gondola to their points of tangency, (-12, -9) and (12, -9). How wide should the gondola be?