SOLUTION: The foot of a ladder is placed 6 feel from a wall. If the top of the ladder rests 8 feet up on the wall, how long is the ladder?
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Question 1156347: The foot of a ladder is placed 6 feel from a wall. If the top of the ladder rests 8 feet up on the wall, how long is the ladder? Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
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The ladder is the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are the ground and the wall.
one leg is 6, another 8
6^2=36
8^2=64
their sum is 100= l^2
ladder is 10 feet long
It is a 3-4-5 right triangle scaled upward by a factor of 2.
