a painter leans a 15 foot ladder against a house the base of the ladder is 5 feet from the house how high on the house does the ladder reach round to the tenth place 1 decimal place

Respuesta :

To solve this problem we can use pythagorean theorem, this way:

In this case, the height is one of the legs of the triangle, use the pythagorean theorem to find it:

[tex]\begin{gathered} h=\sqrt[]{15^2-5^2} \\ h=\sqrt[]{225-25} \\ h=\sqrt[]{200} \\ h=14.1 \end{gathered}[/tex]

The answer is 14.1 ft.

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