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A carpenter leans a ladder that is 26 feet long on a vertical wall and places the bottom of the ladder 10 feet away from the wall. How high is the top of the ladder above the floor

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Answer:

24 feet.

Explanation:

draw a diagram to get a triangle, label it, then use the pythagorean theorem. a^2+b^2=c^2

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