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Can someone help me with this word problem please? It’s for the Pythagorean theorem

Can someone help me with this word problem please? It’s for the Pythagorean theorem-example-1
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Step-by-step explanation:

Mark forms a right angle to the building as shown in the above diagram. The ladder lenght is the hypotenuse of this triangle, therefore we can use Pythagoras to calculate the length.


\begin{gathered} Ladder\text{ = }√(12^2+5^2) \\ \text{ =13} \end{gathered}

Answer: ladder length = 13

Can someone help me with this word problem please? It’s for the Pythagorean theorem-example-1
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