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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 25 feet and the height from the ground to the front doors is 7 feet, how long is the ramp? (Round to the nearest tenth.)

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those form a right triangle with the bottom being 25 ft and the side with 7ft. Apply the pythagorean theorem and solve.

[tex] {25}^{2} + {7}^{2} = 674[/tex]

then you square root the answer to find the hypotenuse

[tex] \sqrt{674} = 26[/tex]
answer is 26 ft

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