A ladder is placed 8 feet away from a wall. The distance from the ground straight to the top of the wall is 16 feet. What is the height of the ladder?

17.89 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a right triangle so we can use the Pythagorean theorem

a^2 + b^2 = c^2  where a and b are the legs and c is the hypotenuse

8^2 +16^2 = c^2

64+ 256 = c^2

320 =c^2

Taking the square root of each side

sqrt(320) = sqrt(c^2)

sqrt(64*5) = c

sqrt(64) sqrt(5) =c

8 sqrt(5) = c

17.88854382=c

17.89 ft

A ladder is placed 8 feet away from a wall. The distance from the ground straight to the top of the wall is 16 feet.

so it is a right angle triangle

in a right angle triangle, According to the Pythagorean theorom,

where

The height of the ladder is

7.25

step-by-step explanation:

we know that 7 equals to 7.0. we also know that 1/4=0.25. so we can add the two together and we get 7.25

-8/2y-8=5/y+4-7y+8/y^2-16

we move all terms to the left:

-8/2y-8-(5/y+4-7y+8/y^2-16)=0

we can not solve this equation