Question

Denise is using a ladder to clean the outside of her second story windows. The ladder she is using is 24 feet long, and she puts the base of the ladder 13 feet away from the house in order to avoid her flower gardens. How high up the side of her house does the ladder reach?

Answer 1

in order to solve this you have to use the pythagorean’s theorem, which is a^2+b^2=c^2. from the problem you can find out you have a=13ft and c=24ft. c is your hypotenuse. you then solve and you get b=20.17ft. you can check to make sure the answer is right, but that is how you solve it. And the ladder would reach 20.17ft.