Well, since 3/15 can be simplified to 1/5 by dividing the top and the bottom by 3, you would just need to find the decimal of 1/5 which is much more commonly recognized. it's .2 (becasue 1/10 would be .1 and 1/5=2/10 so .1x2=.2)
This seems like a right triangle problem.
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.
So, the equation is
.
Solve for x:
16+x^{2}= 196
x^{2}= 196-16
x^{2}= 180
x = 6√5 feet
Hope this helps!