SOLUTION: 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

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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?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi,

seventeen foot long ladder eight feet from your house reaches the bottom of

 your window 

Let x represent how far off the ground the window is

Using the Pythagorean Theorem: 

 x^2 + 8^2 = 17^2 

   x^2 = 225 

    x = 15 ft  |throwing out the negative solution