You are washing your house. Use the following steps to find the shortest ladder that

Chapter 5, Problem 67

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Home Maintenance You are washing your house. Use the following steps to find the shortest ladder that will reach over the greenhouse to the side of the house. (See figure.)

(a) Complete four rows of the table.

(b) Use the table feature of a graphing utility to generate additional rows of the table. Use the table to estimate the minimum length of the ladder.

(c) Write the length \(L_1 + L_2\) as a function of \(\theta\).

(d) Use the graphing utility to graph the function. Use the graph to estimate the minimum length. How does your estimate compare with that in part (b)?

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L_1+L_2

theta

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