SOLUTION: A ladder is leaning up against a house. If the angle of the ladder with the ground is 58° and the ladder is 20 feet long, how far away from the house is the foot of the ladder?
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Question 1206302: A ladder is leaning up against a house. If the angle of the ladder with the ground is 58° and the ladder is 20 feet long, how far away from the house is the foot of the ladder? Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let the distance between the foot of the ladder and the foot of the wall of the house be equal to x.
cos(58) = x/20
multiply both sides of this equation by 20 to get x = 20 * cos(58) = 10.598.
your solution is that the distance between the foot of the ladder and the foot of the wall of the house is 10.598 feet.
