A firefighter needs to lean a ladder against a wall of a building to reach a window. How far away from the base of the building should he/she place the foot of the ladder? Ladder is 25 feet long, window is 23.8 feet high in the building.

7.7 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the distance from the base of the building to the foot of the ladder be represented by x. Ladder is 25 feet long, while window is 23.8 feet high.

The length of the ladder, the height of the window and the distance from base of building to foot of ladder describes a right angled triangle.

Thus, applying the Pythagoras theorem;

= +

625 = 566.44 +

625 - 566.44 =

58.56 =

⇒ x =

      = 7.653

The foot of the ladder should be placed 7.7 feet away from the base of the building.

step-by-step explanation:

the required function is .

step-by-step explanation:

from the given table it is noticed that the graph passing through (-3,7), (0,4), (3,1) and (8,-4).

it is a linear function because the value of y is decrease by one as the value of x increase by 1.

the slope of the function is

the slope of the function is -1 and the y-intercept is 4.

the slope intercept form is

where, m is slope and b is y-intercept.

therefore the required function is . the graph of this function is shown below.