A ladder rests 2.5 m from the base of a house. If the ladder is 4 m long, how far up the side of the

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    A ladder rests 2.5 m from the base of a house. If the ladder is 4 m long, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach?

    We have a right triangle with the hypotenuse as 4, the one leg as 2.5 We want to solve for the other leg length. We use our right triangle solver to get 3.122
     

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