A building has a ramp to its front doors to accommodate the handicapped. If the distance from the building to the end of the ramp is 19 feet and the height from the ground to the front doors is 4 feet, how long is the ramp? (Round to the nearest tenth.)

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anonymous · Answer

i got it, im pretty sure its 19.4

mathmale · Answer

Why not sketch this ramp?  Basically you'd be drawing a triangle, a right triangle.  One of the legs of this triangle is 19 feet long and the other is 4 feet.  How would you go about finding the length of the ramp?  I'd prefer to see

mathmale · Answer

your work, rather than to judge an answer with no explanation of how you got it.

anonymous · Answer

i plugged the values into the formula and soled