SOLUTION: Dunkirk 12 miles Owings If a ladder is leaning against a house, and the base of the ladder is 6 feet away from the house, and the ladder is 18 feet tall, how far up on the house do

Question 1166810: Dunkirk 12 miles Owings If a ladder is leaning against a house, and the base of the ladder is 6 feet away from the house, and the ladder is 18 feet tall, how far up on the house does the ladder lie?

Found 2 solutions by solver91311, josgarithmetic:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Use Pythagoras.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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~~Dunkirk 12 miles Owings~~ If a ladder is leaning against a house, and the base of the ladder is 6 feet away from the house, and the ladder is 18 feet tall, how far up on the house does the ladder lie?
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y, up the house
6, a leg
18, the hypotenuse

Use Pythagorean theorem formula.
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