Yo 50 points Rick has locked himself out of his house! Thankfully, there is an upstairs window open, but he needs to use a ladder to try to get up to the window that is 24 feet high. If Rick leans a 25-foot ladder against the side of the house so that the bottom of the ladder rests 7 feet from the base of the building, how high up the house does the ladder reach? Will it be tall enough for him to reach the open window and get into the house?

Statement reason 1. δabc is similar to δced. given 2. 3. definition of slope 4. slope of slope of definition of slope 5. slope of × slope of multiplying the slopes 6. slope of × slope of substitution property of equality 7. slope of × slope of simplifying the right side the table contains the proof of the relationship between the slopes of two perpendicular lines. what is the reason for statement 2? a. parallel line segments that meet a common perpendicular line are proportional in length. b. the lengths of vertical and horizontal sides in congruent triangles are in a common ratio. c. trigonometric identities determine the lengths of the legs in a right triangle. d. corresponding side lengths in similar triangles are proportional in length.