Home
Class 10
MATHS
A ladder 25m long reaches a window of b...

A ladder 25m long reaches a window of building 20m above the ground. Determine the distance from the foot of the ladder to the building.

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
Hence, the foot of the ladder is at a distance of 15m from the building.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • SIMILAR TRIANGLES

    NCERT KANNAD|Exercise DO THIS (FILL IN THE BLANKS)|6 Videos

  • SIMILAR TRIANGLES

    NCERT KANNAD|Exercise DO THIS TRUE /FALSE|5 Videos

  • SETS

    NCERT KANNAD|Exercise Try This|11 Videos

  • TANGENTS AND SECANTS TO A CIRCLE

    NCERT KANNAD|Exercise Try this|3 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A ladder 17 m long reaches a window of a building 15 m above the ground. The distance of the foot of the ladder from the building is?

A ladder 10 m long reaches a window 8 m above the ground. Find the distance of the foot of the ladder from base of the wall.

A 15 m long ladder reached a window 12m high from the ground on placing it against a wall at a distance a. Find the distance of the foot of ladder from the wall.

From the of a vertical building of 50sqrt3 m height on a level ground the angle of depression of an object on the same ground is observed to be 60^@ . Find the distance of the object from the foot of the building.

A circus artist climbs from the ground along a rope which is stretched from the top of a vertical pole and tied at the ground at a certain distance from the foot of the pole. The height of the pole is 12 m and the angle made by the rope with the ground is 30^(@) . Find the distance covered by the artist in reaching the top of the pole.

A ladder of length 2.6m is leaned against a wall. When it is at distance of 2.4 m from the foot of the wall, the top of the ladder touches the bottom edge of the window in the wall. It the foot of the ladder is moved 1.4 m towards the wall, it touches the top edge of the window. Find the height of the window.

A vertical tree is broken by the wind at a height of 6 m from its foot and its top touches the ground at a distance of 8 m from the foot of the tree. Calculate the distance between the top of the tree before breaking and the point at which of the tree touches the ground after break.

An insect 8 m away from the foot of a lamp post 6 m tall, crawls towards it. After moving through a distance, its distance from the top of the lamp post is equal to the distance it has moved. How far is the insect away from the foot of the lamp post?

A ladder leaning against a wall makes an angle of 60^(@) with the horizontal. If the foot of the ladder is 2.5 m away from the wall, find the length of the ladder