Mitchel climbs 8 feet up the vertical ladder of a slide and zips down the 17-foot slide. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the bottom of the slide

the bottom of the ladder from the bottom of the slide is 15 feet far from

the bottom of the slide

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that Mitchel climbs 8 feet up the vertical ladder of a slide and zips down the 17-foot slide.

The slide the vertical ladder and the floor together form a right triangle if we can vizualise.

The hypotenuse would be the slide , and one leg is ladder and other the  bottom of the ladder from the bottom of the slide

We have hypotenuse = 17 feet and one leg = 8 feet

So use Pythagorean theorem to find other leg

Other leg =

the bottom of the ladder from the bottom of the slide is 15 feet far from

the bottom of the slide

b

step-by-step explanation:

a difference is the result of subtraction. while each of these expressions has subtraction in it, a difference will be the result when subtraction is the last operation applied in the order of operations for the expression. this means subtraction must be outside of the parenthesis. only b has this.