A 20 ft ladder is leaned against the side of a building so that the base of the ladder is 7ft from the building. How high up the wall does the ladder reach?
1 Answer
May 18, 2018
I tried this:
Explanation:
Here you get a right triangle and you can use Pythagoras Theorem with the length of the ladder as hipotenuse.
You get:
rearrange and sove for the height