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A ladder reaches a window 12ft above the ground and the foot of the ladder is 4.8 from the wall. How long is the ladder

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If you draw this, you'll see it forms a triangle, with the ladder as the hypotenuse. We're given the two side measurements, so we can easily use Pythagorean theorem to find the ladder length (x):
(12^2 + 4.8^2) = x^2 .... x = 12.92ft
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Pythagorean Theorem:

4^2 + b^2 = 15^2
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