3. A ladder is leaning against a wall. The ladder is 5 meters long. The top of the ladder is 3 meters above the ground. The top of the ladder is sliding down at 8 meters/second.
a) How far is the bottom of the ladder from the wall?
b) How fast is the bottom of the ladder sliding away from the wall?

1. The bottom of the ladder is 4 meters away from the wall

2. I'm not sure about this one, someone else answer please :D

Step-by-step explanation:

We can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find how far away the bottom of the ladder is.

The ladder is creating a triangle, with 5 as it's hypotenuse and 3 as one of the left.

I'm sorry I couldn't answer the second one, but I hope this helped!

a.  4m

b. 6m/s

Step-by-step explanation:

wall height = y = 3m

ladder length = L = 5m

distance from bottom of ladder to the wall = x

a.   y² + x² = L²   eq.(1)

     3³ + x² = 5²        

    x = 4 m

b. How fast is the bottom of the ladder sliding away from the wall? = dx/dt

using eq.1   y² + x² = L²

2y (dy/dt) + 2x (dx/dt) = 0

y (dy/dt) + 2 (dx/dt) = 0

we know that (dy/dt) = -8 m/s

3 (-8) + 4 (dx/dt) = 0

dx/dt =  -24 / -4

dx/dt = 6 m/s

step-by-step explanation: