Question

Michelle delivers books to school libraries. Her truck has a slide out ramp for unloading the books. The top of the ramp is 3 feet above the ground. The ramp itself is 5.2 feet long. What is the horizontal distance the ramp reaches?

Answer 1

`√(18.04)`

Explanation:

The wording is a bit confusing, but i beleive it basically means that we're trying to find the length on a leg of a triangle with a leg length of 3 and a hypotenuse of 5.2

if we write this out as an equation, it gives us:

`5.2^(2)-3^(2)`

If we then simplify this, we get 27.04 - 9, which then simplifies to 18.04.

We then need to get the square root of this number to get the answer, thus the answer is
`√(18.04)`