A 3m ladder stands on horizontal ground and reaches 2.8 m up a vertical wall. how far is the foot of the ladder from the base of the wall? round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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Grace Hill

Mathematics

23 July, 15:22

A 3m ladder stands on horizontal ground and reaches 2.8 m up a vertical wall. how far is the foot of the ladder from the base of the wall? round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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Waylon Blair · Answer 1

1.08 m. is the answer because you would use the pythagorean theorem to solve it.

2.8^2+b^2=3^2

7.84+b^2=9

b^2=9-7.84

square root of b^2=square root of 1.16

b=1.08