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Fiesta28 [93]
3 years ago
6

A 45 foot ladder is used to clean the

Mathematics
2 answers:
Inessa [10]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

  20.6 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The Pythagorean theorem can tell you the distance from the house the base of the ladder may be for it to reach 40 feet up. If that distance is represented by x, then it tells you ...

  45^2 = x^2 + 40^2

  x = √(2025 -1600) = √425

  x ≈ 20.6

The ladder will reach to 40 feet high when the base is 20.6 feet from the house.

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<em>Comment on ladder distance</em>

The ladder safety association recommends an angle with the ground of about 75°. That corresponds to a distance from the house of about 10 feet. If the ladder is 20 feet away, it will barely reach the gutter, so placing it at that distance would probably not be safe.

An appropriate answer to this question is "10 feet", not based on math, but <em>based on safety</em>. At that distance the end of the ladder will extend about 3.7 feet beyond the gutter.

Alexeev081 [22]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

20.62

Step-by-step explanation:

In this instance, we are going to use the pythagorean theorem.

The height of the gutter will be a leg of the triangle, and the ladder will be the hypotenuse. The formula is

a^{2}  +  {b}^{2}  =  {c}^{2}

While A and B are legs and C is the hypotenuse. We are trying to find B, the distance from the house.

So plug A and C in:

{40}^{2}   +  {b}^{2}  =  {45}^{2}

Now figure it out: first you square 40 and 45:

1600 +  {b}^{2}  = 2025

Isolate the B term: subtract 1600 from both sides

{b}^{2}  = 425

Now take the square root of both sides to find B

b = 20.62

And that's your answer

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