The ladder is the hypotenuse of a 45 45 90 triangle.
The legs of a 45 45 90 triangle = hypotenuse / sqroot (2)
15 / 1.414 = 10.608
(Incidentally it is the "bottom" of the ladder that is 10.608 feet from the wall. The "top" of the ladder is touching the wall. LOL)
Answer:
1 yard
Step-by-step explanation:
1yard = 3 feet and there is only 2
Answer:
The radius will be 10.72 cm
Step-by-step explanation:
Hope this helps
The number of feet in the length of the handrail is 17.3 ft.
The easiest way to see this is to imagine that we can "unfold" the spiral to create a rectangle
The bottom side of the rectangle is just the arc length of a circle with a radius of 3 ft turned through 270°= (3/4) of a whole revolution
(3/4) (2pi) (3) = (9/2)pi ft = 4.5 pi ft
The side of the rectangle will be the rise of the staircase = 10ft
And the diagonal of the rectangle will be the length of the handrail
We can use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve this
Handrail length = √ [ (4.5 pi)^2 + 10^2 ] ≈ 17.3 ft
Pythagorean theorem is the well-known geometric theorem that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square on the hypotenuse.
Learn more about the Pythagorean theorem here: brainly.com/question/343682
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