SOLUTION: Suppose you have a 13-foot ladder and want to reach a height of 12 feet to clean out the gutters on your house. How far from the base of the house should the base of the ladder be?

Question 1185772: Suppose you have a 13-foot ladder and want to reach a height of 12 feet to clean out the gutters on your house. How far from the base of the house should the base of the ladder be?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You have the right topic for you question: Pythagorean Theorem.

c=13; a=12. Plug in the numbers to find b.

Simple arithmetic....

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