SOLUTION: the base of a 15 -ft ladder is 5ft away from a wall.How far above the floor is the top of the ladder?

Question 280762: the base of a 15 -ft ladder is 5ft away from a wall.How far above the floor is the top of the ladder?
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Walls are perpendicular to floors. So there is a 90 degree angle there. This means that the ladder, the floor (between the wall and the ladder) and the wall (between the floor and the ladder) form a right triangle with the ladder as the hypotenuse and the floor and the wall forming the legs.

Use the equation for the Pythagorean Theorem to solve this problem.
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