Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
We know that we have a 9 foot long ladder resting upon a wall, with an unknown height, but the ladder is 4.5 feet away from the wall.
This can be represented as a triangle, where x is the unknown side.
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| \
x | \ 9
| \
| \
|_____\
4.5
We can use The Pythagorean Theorem to find the value of x. The theorem states that
, where a and b are the lengths of the legs and c is the length of the hypotenuse.
However, we already know the hypotenuse and one leg. Therefore we can substitute inside the equation to find the missing value.

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The answer is 63,800 mi²
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