Hi,

seventeen foot long ladder eight feet from your house reaches the bottom of

 your window 

Let x represent how far off the ground the window is

Using the Pythagorean Theorem: 

 x^2 + 8^2 = 17^2 

   x^2 = 225 

    x = 15 ft  |throwing out the negative solution

 

  

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