SOLUTION: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 10 feet. Find the distance from the wall to the bottom of the ladder if the length of the

Question 754465: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 10 feet. Find the distance from the wall to the bottom of the ladder if the length of the ladder is two feet more than its distance from the wall.
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A ladder is resting against a wall making a shape of right angle triangle:
the ladder- hypotenuse
the distance from the wall and the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground are legs and
if the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground is
if the length of the ladder is two feet more than its distance from the wall, then we have

......the distance from the wall to the bottom of the ladder
now find

.....the length of the ladder
check:

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