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Given:
The base of 40-foot ladder is 8 feet from the wall.
To find:
How high is the ladder on the wall (round to the nearest foot).
Solution:
Ladder makes a right angle triangle with wall and ground.
We have,
Length of ladder (hypotenuse)= 40 foot
Base = 8 foot
We need to find the perpendicular to get the height of the ladder on the wall.
Let h be the height of the ladder on the wall.
According to the Pythagoras theorem,
Taking square root on both sides.
Height cannot be negative. Round to the nearest foot.
Therefore, the height of the ladder on the wall is 39 foot.
Answer:
0.8 OR
Step-by-step explanation:
The reciprocal of any number is the number that it multiplies by to equal 1.
The reciprocal can be found by simply converting the number into a fraction and then 'flipping' the fraction as any number multiplied by its reciprocal is 1.
E.g.
No. X/Y * Y/X (its reciprocal) = 1
So, to find the reciprocal of 1.25,we should first convert 1.25 to a fraction.
1.25 = 125/100
Now we just flip 5/4 to get our reciprocal:
= 0.8
Test: 0.8 * 1.25 = 1
The reciprocal of 1.25 () is 0.8 (
).
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