A police officer seals off the scene of an accident using a roll of yellow tape that is 368 feet long. What dimensions should be
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<h3>The ladder will reach a height of 11.8 feet up the wall</h3>
<em><u>Solution:</u></em>
The ladder, wall and base of the ladder from wall forms a right angled triangle
Length of ladder forms the hypotenuse
Length of ladder = 12 foot
base of the ladder from wall = 2 feet
<em><u>To find: height of wall</u></em>
By pythagoras theorem.
Where,
"c" is the Length of ladder
"a" is the base of the ladder from wall
"b" is the height of wall
Substituting the values,
Thus, the ladder will reach a height of 11.8 feet on wall