SOLUTION: If the distance between a 13-foot ladder and a vertical wall is 5 feet along the ground, how high can a person climb if the ladder is inclined against the wall?
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Question 765973: If the distance between a 13-foot ladder and a vertical wall is 5 feet along the ground, how high can a person climb if the ladder is inclined against the wall?
I've tried my best interpreting the question with diagrams but I'm not getting my answers in any of the options I've got, maybe cause I don't know to use the feet/foot metric system. Is there a way to convert from feet/foot to cm/m?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Sure.
There are approximately 2.54 cm per inch. So there are roughly 2.54 times 12 = 30.48 cm per foot. Then, since a meter is 100 centimeters, 1 foot is 0.3048 meters. So multiply .30 times the height of the top of the ladder in feet to get the top of the ladder in meters. Round to the nearest meter.
Hint: 13 and 5 are two numbers in a Pythagorean triple.
John
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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