A 52 foot ladder is set against the side of the house so that it reaches up 48 feet .if jevonte grabs the ladder at its base and
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Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The way to approach this that makes the most sense to a student would be to find out how far from the house the ladder currently is, then add 3 feet to that and do the problem all over again. This is right triangle stuff...Pythagorean's Theorem in particular. The ladder is the hypotenuse, 52 feet long. The height of the rectangle is the distance the ladder is up the side o the house, 48 feet. We plug those into Pythagorean's Theorem and solve for the distance the ladder is from the house:
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x = 20. Now if we add the 3 feet that the ladder was pulled away from house, the distance from the base of the ladder to the house is 23 feet, the ladder is still 52 feet long, but what's different is the height of the ladder up the side of the house, our new x:
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x = 46.6 feet
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The answers to the questions about problem 2 are:
- The fraction of the length after Priya stops two times is 3/4.
- The fraction of the length after Priya stops four times is 15/16.
- Priya will never reach the end of the hallway.
Step-by-step explanation:
The explanation about each answer is below:
1. In the first stop, Priya has walked half of the total length, and there would still be half the hallway, however, when she stops the second time, she has walked the half of the half, I mean:
If you add the two values you obtain the total distance traveled by Priya:
And the distance traveled in two stops is 3/4 of the total length of the hallway.
2. With four stops the system is the same, we know with two stops Priya travels 3/4 of the hallway, now with the third stop, she will travel half of the remaining distance:
And in the fourth stop she will travel half of the remaining, I mean:
Now, we add all the values of the distances obtained:
So, the distance traveled by Priya in the fourth stop is 15/16 of the total length of the hallway.
3. How we know, the numbers are infinite, in the same forms the distances, by this reason, how the problem says that Priya walks just half of the distance, she will never reach the end because despite she has very near of the end, she will continue walking just half and ever smaller distances.