A 20-foot ladder is leaning against a building. If the bottom of the ladder is sliding along the pavement directly away from the
building at 2 ?feet/second, how fast is the top of the ladder moving down when the foot of the ladder is 3 feet from the? wall?The top of the ladder is moving down at a rate of _____ ?feet/second when the foot of the ladder is 3 feet from the wall. ?(Round to the nearest thousandth as? needed.)
The equation for this is a^2+b^2=c^2 so your equation would be 7^2+20^2=X So you square the 7 and the 20 then take the square root of X and you get X=21.19 :)