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Anna [14]
3 years ago
9

Sally has Christmas lights the roof is 16 feet high the ladder is 20 ft long how far away is letter from wall

Mathematics
1 answer:
lesantik [10]3 years ago
4 0
It should be 12 ft away from the wall. Not 4 ft. You do not just subtract the difference because as you pull it away from the wall, the ladder is mostly moving horizontally with only a small vertical change.

You can use Pythagorean Theorem to find the answer. Think of the ladder as the hypotenuse of a right triangle with the wall and the ground as the legs.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

16^2 + b^2 = 20^2

b^2 = 20^2 - 16^2

b^2 = 144

b = 12 ft






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