Question 602982
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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