SOLUTION: Iva is trapped in a house which has walls 15 feet high. Fire fighters will rescue him by putting a ladder of length L feet at a distance x feet from the wall. They require x/L=1/2

Question 187015: Iva is trapped in a house which has walls 15 feet high. Fire fighters will rescue him by putting a ladder of length L feet at a distance x feet from the wall. They require x/L=1/2 solve exactly for x and L.
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Our calculations will be based on the assumption that one end of the ladder will rest on the top of the 15ft wall. The rest wil look like this:
--->Condition:=
That forms a Right Triangle, Pyth.Theorem remember?
---> as per condtn:

--->
---->
, Distance from the Wall
Remember our condition:
--->,Length of Ladder
.
Let's check by going back to our Eqn:

, close enough, we round off.
Thank you,
Jojo
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