Jason accidentally locked himself out of his apartment, but remembered that he left a window open. The window is 8 feet above th
e ground. Since he works part-time at the local hardware store, he went to the store to borrow a ladder. There's a row of bushes along the edge of the apartment, so he will have to place the ladder 6 feet from the building. What length of ladder will Jason need to reach the window?
I won't give you the answer, but I'll explain how to solve it :)
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^ He has to place ladder here, 6ft away from building
So you have to find the diagonal distance between the point where he has to place the ladder and where the window is. Because it creates a right triangle, you can use the Pythagorean theorem (a^2 + b^2=c^2) to find the length of the hypotenuse, or the diagonal distance. a and b are the two sides, so in this case a = 8 and b = 6. Now just square a and b, add them together to get c, and find the square root. What do you get? Feel free to ask if you're still confused.
