SOLUTION: Jenifer is flying her kite and it gets stuck in a tree. She knows the string on her kite is 13 feet long and she is 5 feet from the tree. How long of a ladder (in feet) will she

Question 1202436: Jenifer is flying her kite and it gets stuck in a tree. She knows the string on her kite is 13 feet long and she is 5 feet from the tree.
How long of a ladder (in feet) will she need to get her kite out of the tree?
Enter your answer as a decimal rounded to two decimal places.
Answer by ikleyn(52778) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The vertical leg of the right-angled triangle (= the height of the kite over the ground) is

     = 12 feet.


That is all that a reader can extract from the problem.

The rest is on the imagination abilities of the author and a reader.

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