Question

A ladder leans against the side of a house. The angle of elevation of the ladder is 67 degrees when the bottom of the ladder is 14 ft from the side of the house. Find the length of the ladder.

Answer 1

Answer:

32.98 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

What you have right there is a triangle.

The base of the triangle is given (14 ft)

The angle from the ladder makes while leaning on the house is 67 degrees.

This is a simple trigonometry problem

You want to find the length of the ladder and you don't have the hypotenuse

So you can use the function tan to find it.

tan(Ф) = opposite/adjacent

You are looking for the opposite side length

So you do tan(Ф) * adjacent = opposite

tan(67) * 14 = 32.98 ft