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Find the width of the street from ladder positioning?

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In an street, two ladders are placed crosswise. The lengths of these ladders are resp. 2 and 3 meters. They cross one another at one meter above the ground. Now the question is what is the width of the street?

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posted Mar 5, 2014 by Luv Kumar

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it will be 1.732 meter.

answer Oct 20, 2014 by Ankit Bajpai



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