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A building has a ramp to its front doors to accommodate the handicapped. If the distance from the building to the end of the ramp is 22 feet and the height from the ground to the front doors is 5 feet, how long is the ramp?

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The ramp forms a right triangle with legs 5 and 22.
Find the length of the hypotenuse using the Pythagorean theorem,
c=raiz((5)^2+(22)^2)= 22.56 ft
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the ramp is 22.56 ft long.
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