A 35 foot ladder is set against the side of a house so that it reaches up 28 feet. If Bentley grabs the ladder at its base and pulls it 4 feet farther from the house, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach now? (The answer is not 24 ft.) Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.

Find the value of the variable and the length of each secant segment

The decibel level of sound is 50 db greater on a busy street than in a quiet room where the intensity of sound is watt/m2. the level of sound in the quiet room is db, and the intensity of sound in the busy street is watt/m2. use the formula , where is the sound level in decibels, i is the intensity of sound, and is the smallest sound intensity that can be heard by the human ear (roughly equal to watts/m2).

The value √10 and √15 are plotted on the number line