Consider the ladder leans against the wall of the house as shown in the figure below:
The figure above shown is a right angled triangle.
Here,
Recall the Pythagoras theorem .
Plug into above formula as,
Subtract from both sides to isolate the variable as,
Rewrite the fraction into perfect square as,
Using property of radicals, if , then , therefore, the value of is,
Since, negative value has no significant as it is a distance, so negative value neglected.
So, the value of is
Therefore, the vertical distance that the ladder reaches up the house is m.
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