document.write( "Question 602982: if you put a seventeen foot long ladder eight feet from your house and the top reaches the bottom of your window how far off the ground is your window? What formula did you use for this equation? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #380512 by ewatrrr(24785) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Hi,
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document.write( "seventeen foot long ladder eight feet from your house reaches the bottom of
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document.write( " your window 
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document.write( "Let x represent how far off the ground the window is
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document.write( "Using the Pythagorean Theorem: 
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document.write( " x^2 + 8^2 = 17^2 
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document.write( "   x^2 = 225 
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document.write( "    x = 15 ft  |throwing out the negative solution
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