A 15 foot ladder is learning against a house so that it is 7 feet from the ground. What angle does the ladder make with the ground?

Answer 1

Make you sketch, and you are given the hypotenuse and the adjacent.
If you know your trig ratios, the trig ratio that involves hypotenuse and adjacent is the cosine.

cos Ø = 7/15
Ø = .....
let me know what you get