How high up is the ladder
A ladder 10 meters long is placed against a wall with its foot 6 meters from the base of the wall. How high does the ladder reach up the wall?
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We can use the Pythagorus Theorem for this and we get:
ReplyDelete10^2 = 6^2+x^2
100=x^2+36
x^2=64
x=8