If a ladder 16 feet long Is leaning against a building and the base is 4 feet from the building, how high up the building will the ladder reach?
Thanks to the Pythagorean Theorem, we know that the height of the building is the square root of 16-squared minus 4-squared, which equals 15.4919334.
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