Jim needs to reach the gutters on his house which are 12 feet off the ground. if his ladder is 10 feet long, what is the maximum distance away from the house he can rest the base of the ladder?

Statements reasons 1. ab ≅ cd; ad ≅ bc 1. given 2. ac ≅ ac 2. reflexive property 3. △adc ≅ △cba 3. ? 4. ∠dac ≅ ∠bca; ∠acd ≅ ∠cab 4. cpctc 5. ∠dac and ∠bca are alt. int. ∠s; ∠acd and ∠cab are alt. int. ∠s 5. definition of alternate interior angles 6. ab ∥ cd; ad ∥ bc 6. converse of the alternate interior angles theorem 7. abcd is a parallelogram 7. definition of parallelogram what is the missing reason in step 3?