Did you know?
Did you know that when a painter leans a 15 ft ladder against a building with its base 6 ft away, the ladder reaches the highest point on the building at approximately 14 ft? This can be determined through the application of the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. In this case, the hypotenuse represents the ladder, and the two sides are the distance from the base of the ladder to the building and the height on the building that the ladder reaches. So, by using the theorem, the ladder reaches around 14 ft on the building.
