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Anna has leaned a ladder against the side of her house. if the ladder forms a 72? angle with the ground and rests against the house at a spot that is 6 meters high, approximately how far is the bottom
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Anna has leaned a ladder against the side of her house. if the ladder forms a 72? angle with the ground and rests against the house at a spot that is 6 meters high, approximately how far is the bottom of the ladder from the wall?

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tan(72)=6/x
x=6/tan(72)
on a calculator and get 1.9495
which is about 1.9
Therefore making it 2 meters.

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