A 50 foot ladder is set against the side of a house so that it reaches up 48 feet. If Shaniece grabs the ladder at its base and pulls it 10 feet farther from the house, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach now? (The answer is not 38 ft.) Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
Let $d$ be the distance from the base of the house to the base of the ladder. Then the ladder forms a right angle with the ground, and the top of the ladder is 48 feet above the ground. Therefore, by the Pythagorean Theorem,
\[d^2 + 48^2 = 50^2,\]so $d^2 = 2500 - 48^2 = 76.$ Then $d = \sqrt{76} = 2 \sqrt{19}.$
If Shaniece pulls the ladder 10 feet farther from the house, then the distance from the base of the house to the base of the ladder is $2 \sqrt{19} + 10.$ Again, by the Pythagorean Theorem, the height $h$ (in feet) satisfies
\[(2 \sqrt{19} + 10)^2 + h^2 = 50^2,\]so $(2 \sqrt{19} + 10)^2 + h^2 = 2500.$ Expanding, we get
\[76 + 40 \sqrt{19} + 100 + h^2 = 2500,\]so $h^2 = 2324 - 40 \sqrt{19}.$ Then by the Binomial Theorem,
\[(\sqrt{2324 - 40 \sqrt{19}})^2 = 2324 - 40 \sqrt{19} = 924 - 40 \sqrt{19} - 400 + 40 \sqrt{19} = 524 - 400 = 124,\]so $h = \sqrt{124} = 2 \sqrt{31}.$
To the nearest tenth of a foot, $2 \sqrt{31} = \boxed{11.1}$ feet.
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Apologies for the confusion. Let's solve the problem correctly:
We have a right triangle formed by the ladder, the ground, and the side of the house. The ladder acts as the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Using the Pythagorean theorem, we know that $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$, where $a$ and $b$ are the legs of the triangle and $c$ is the hypotenuse.
In this case, the ladder has a length of 50 feet, and it reaches up 48 feet, so we can set $a = 48$ and $c = 50$. Solving for $b$, we have:
$b^2 = c^2 - a^2 = 50^2 - 48^2 = 2500 - 2304 = 196$
$b = \sqrt{196} = 14$
Now, if Shaniece pulls the ladder 10 feet farther from the house, the base of the ladder will be at a distance of $d = 48 + 10 = 58$ feet from the house.
Using the same Pythagorean theorem, we can solve for the new height, which we'll call $h$:
$h^2 = c^2 - a'^2 = 50^2 - 58^2 = 2500 - 3364 = -864$
Since the height cannot be negative, we made an error in our calculations. Let's check our work:
When the ladder is pulled 10 feet farther from the house, the base is at a distance of $58$ feet from the house. However, if we calculate the height using the Pythagorean theorem, we find that it is not a real value. This means that moving the ladder 10 feet farther from the house would result in the ladder not reaching a height on the side of the house.
Therefore, it seems there might be an issue with the problem statement or the numbers given.
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Apologies for the earlier incorrect response. Let's solve the problem again.
We have a right triangle formed by the ladder, the ground, and the side of the house. The ladder acts as the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Using the Pythagorean theorem, we know that $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$, where $a$ and $b$ are the legs of the triangle and $c$ is the hypotenuse.
In this case, the ladder has a length of 50 feet, and it reaches up 48 feet, so we can set $a = 48$ and $c = 50$. Solving for $b$, we have:
$b^2 = c^2 - a^2 = 50^2 - 48^2 = 2500 - 2304 = 196$
$b = \sqrt{196} = 14$
Now, if Shaniece pulls the ladder 10 feet farther from the house, the base of the ladder will be at a distance of $d = 48 + 10 = 58$ feet from the house.
Using the same Pythagorean theorem, we can solve for the new height, which we'll call $h$:
$h^2 = c^2 - a'^2 = 50^2 - 58^2 = 2500 - 3364 = -864$
Since the height cannot be negative, it means that moving the ladder 10 feet farther from the house would result in the ladder not reaching a height on the side of the house.
Therefore, there isn't a valid answer to this question based on the given information.
To find out how far up the side of the house the ladder will reach after Shaniece pulls it 10 feet farther from the house, we can use the Pythagorean theorem.
The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (in this case, the ladder) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (the height the ladder reaches and the distance the ladder is pulled from the house).
Let's denote the height the ladder reaches as "h" and the initial distance the ladder is from the house as "d." According to the problem, h = 48 feet and d = 50 feet.
We want to find the new height the ladder will reach after being pulled 10 feet farther from the house. Let's denote this new height as "h'".
Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can set up the following equation:
(h')^2 = h^2 + (d + 10)^2
Substituting the given values:
(h')^2 = 48^2 + (50 + 10)^2
(h')^2 = 2304 + 3600
(h')^2 = 5904
To solve for h', we need to find the square root of both sides:
h' = √(5904)
Calculating √(5904), the new height the ladder will reach is approximately 76.8 feet (rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot).
Therefore, when Shaniece pulls the ladder 10 feet farther from the house, it will reach approximately 76.8 feet up the side of the house.