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How many feet above the top of the building should the tip of the ladder reach?
20
The base of a ladder is 7 feet away from the wall The top of the ladder is 19 feet from the floor Find the length of the ladder to the nearest thousandth?
Using Pythagoras' theorem the length of the ladder is 20.248 feet
How far up a wall does a ladder reach that is 26 feet long and 10 feet from the base of a wall?
Regard the ladder as the hypotenuse and the distance from the wall as one leg of a right angled triangle. Then, 262 = 102 + H2 : where H is the height reached up the wall by the ladder. H2 = 676 - 100 = 576 : H = √576 = 24
A 15 foot ladder is leaning against a 30 foot wallthe bottom end of the ladder is 9 feet from the wallhow many feet above the ground does the ladder touch the wall?
12 feet.
How high on a wall does a 12-ft ladder reach when the base of the ladder is 3 ft fr?
Use Pythagoras' theorem: 122-32 = 135 and its square root gives the answer of 11.619 feet rounded to 3 decimal places
Pyhtagorean Theorem A firefighter has a 22-foot ladder If he stand the bottom of the ladder 7 feet from the base of a building will the ladder be long enough to reach a window 19 feet from the groun?
he should bud the ladder so it wouldn't be able to reach
A window sill is 12 feet above the ground How far must a ladder extend to reach the sill if the foot of the ladder is 5 feet from the building?
17
How many feet above the top of the building should the tip of the ladder reach?
20
A 10-foot ladder is leaning against a tree The bottom of the ladder is 4 feet away from the bottom of the tree About how high up the tree does the top of the ladder reach?
9.2
If A painter leans a 34ft ladder against a building The base of the ladder is 16ft from the building To the nearest foot how high on the building does the ladder reach?
30 feet. And you don't have to round it to the nearest foot. It's exactly 30 feet.
Ken leans a 12-foot ladder against his house He places the ladder so that the base is 5 feet from the house How far up the house does the ladder reach?
10.9 [11]
A 6 m ladder is used to reach a window 5 m above ground. What is the farthest distance from the base of the wall that the foot ladder can reach?
It depends if you want the ladder to overhang or to be set under but I would say 2 feet or 2/3 of a meter
Can a 20-foot ladder reach a height of 10 yards?
30
How long must a ladder be to reach the top of a 20 foot wall if the ladder and the wall form a 32 degree angle?
Hypotenuse = 20/sin580 = 23.58356807 Length of ladder: rounded to 23.584 feet
In order to reach a roof that's located 24 feet above the ground the ladder used must extend to a height of at least?
Assuming it is a two section ladder then it must therefore have a minimum length of 28 feet.
How high up on a building will a 15 foot ladder reach if the foot of the ladder is placed 5 feet from the building?
20
What ladder would an individual use indoors and to reach 10 feet?
The best ladder you should take is a aluminium or fiberglass skyscraper, you can order them with discount on the Official website of LittleGiantLadder.
