Question

The foot of the ladder is 10 feet from the wall. The ladder is 2 feet longer than the height that it reaches on the wall. What is the length of the ladder?

Answer 1

6. Clark left for school at 7:43 A.M. He got to school 36 minutes later. At what time did Clark get to school?

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Answer 2

10^2 + height^2 = (height +2)^2

100 + height^2 = height^2 + 4*height + 4

96 = 4 * height

height = 24

laddder length = 26

DOUBLE-CHECK

26^2 = 24^2 + 10^2

676 = 576 + 100

Correct!!

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