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A 10' ladder is leaning against a wall. If the foot of the ladder is 3' from the wall, how high up the wall does the top of the ladder reach? Round to the nearest tenth

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see the work below. Use the Pythagorean theorem to solve this problem.
A 10' ladder is leaning against a wall. If the foot of the ladder is 3' from the wall-example-1
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