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A ladder 13 m long rests against a wall with its foot 5 m from the wall. How high up the wall does it reach?
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
12 m
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Explanation
By the Pythagoras theorem the height is √(132 − 52) = √144 = 12 m.
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