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A painter leans a 25-ft ladder against a building. The base of the ladder is 7 ft from the building. To the nearest foot, how high on the building does the ladder reach?

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This makes a right triangle
hence we can use Pythogorean theorem
we get 625-49 which appears to be 24^2
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