A ladder is 25 ft long. The ladder needs to reach to a window that is 24 ft above the ground. How fa

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    A ladder is 25 ft long. The ladder needs to reach to a window that is 24 ft above the ground. How far away from the building should the bottom of the ladder be placed?

    We have a right triangle, where the ladder is the hypotenuse, and the window side is one side.

    Using our right triangle and the pythagorean theorem calculator, we get a length of 7 ft for the ladder bottom from the wall.
     

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