Given : To hang lights up on his house.Garrett place is a 14 foot ladder 4 feet from the base of the house.
Since house is standing vertical to to ground making a right angles , so the triangle made by ladder must be a right triangle, where ladder is a hypotenuse.
Let h be the height of the house where the ladder reach.
By Pythagoras Theorem , we have
Hence, the height of the house where the ladder reach= 13.42 feet
So assuming 14 feet is the hypotenuse and 4 feet is a leg of the right triangle, we can use the pythagorean theorem () to solve for the height of the house, in which we shall name it x.