A ladder leaning against a building makes an angle of 78 degrees with the ground. The foot of the ladder is 5 feet from the building. How long is the ladder?

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  24 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The side adjacent to the angle is given, and the hypotenuse of the triangle is the unknown. The cosine relation applies:

  Cos = Adjacent/Hypotenuse

  hypotenuse = ladder length = (5 ft)/cos(78°) ≈ 24.0 ft

The ladder is about 24 feet long.

29 is the correct answer

step-by-step explanation:

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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