How many feet from the base of a house must a 39-foot ladder be placed so that the top of the ladder will reach a point on the house 36 feet from the ground?
Simply use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve this problem: a^2 + b^2 = c^2 where a and b are the legs of a right triangle and c is the hypotenuse. In this problem the ladder will be the hypotenuse. The final answer is 15 feet. ChaCha!
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