You need to spackle a hole on the outside of your house that is 24 feet off the
ground. You want to place the bottom of your ladder 7 feet from the wall. How tall
does the ladder need to be to reach the hole?
OA) 23 ft
OB) 25 ft
OC) 14 ft
QD) 20ft

The ladder needs to be 25 ft tall

Step-by-step explanation:

You can use the pythagorean theorem for this:

a²+b²=c²

a = 7, b = 24, c = ?

We need to solve for c:

7²+24²=c²

49+576=c²

c²=625

c=25

step-by-step explanation:

rectangles are made up of 4 right angles, which means that a side and a base meet perpendicular to one another.   their slopes then have to reflect perpendicular slopes.   perpendicular slopes are opposite reciprocals of one another.   for example, if the slope of one line is +2/3, then the perpendicular slope to that would be -3/2.   so we look for that combination in our choices.

all of them satisfy that condition (so what's the question, i guess? )