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Christian’s kite was stuck on top of a tree. To get it down, he used a 10-foot ladder and placed the bottom 6 feet away from the tree. Which of the following correctly uses a Pythagorean triple to find out how high the ladder reaches up the tree?(1 point)
6 feet
8 feet
4 feet
11.7 feet
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8 feet
Reason: Treat the ladder as the hypotenuse of a right triangle: height = sqrt(10^2 − 6^2) = sqrt(100 − 36) = sqrt(64) = 8. This is the 6-8-10 (3-4-5 scaled) Pythagorean triple.
Reason: Treat the ladder as the hypotenuse of a right triangle: height = sqrt(10^2 − 6^2) = sqrt(100 − 36) = sqrt(64) = 8. This is the 6-8-10 (3-4-5 scaled) Pythagorean triple.
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