Question

I DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP!! A cat gets stuck on the roof. If the latter is 12 feet long and must be placed 7 feet away from the building. How high can the ladder reach up the building to save the cat

Answer 1

your answer is 9.7 feet

Explanation:

you apply Pythagorean theorem
`a^(2) +b^(2) =c^(2)` since you are looking for height you can subsitute x for a or b and since 12 is the largest number this will be your c which is your hypotneuse and 7 will be subsituted as a or b depending on what letter you used as your x value
`7^(2) +b^(2) =`12^(2)` is equal too 49 +b^2 =144 you then subtract 49 on both sides to isolate your x (b) and this gets you 95 and then you find the square root of 95 which is 9.7

Answer 2

84

Explanation: