Andrew just went down the slide at the playground. He walks 4 feet to get from the end of the slide back to the ladder. Then he climbs 5 feet to the top of the slide again. How long is the slide? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.

Mr. Harvey is leaning a ladder against the side of his house to repair the roof. The top of the ladder reaches the roof, which is 5 meters high. The base of the ladder is 5 meters away from the house, where Mr. Harvey's son is holding it steady. How long is the ladder? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth. meters

An amusement park ride has an elevator that brings riders to the top of a tower. Riders step off the elevator onto a slide, which is a straight line from the top of the tower to level ground. The base of the slide is 400 feet from the base of the tower and the length of the slide is 500 ft. If the elevator rises at a rate of 10 feet per second, how many seconds does the elevator take to rise from the ground to the top of the slide?

On the school playground, the slide is due west of the tire swing and due south of the monkey bars. If the distance between the slide and the tire swing is 3 meters and the distance between the tire swing and the monkey bars is 8 meters, how far is the slide from the monkey bars? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.

A 25 foot ladder is set against the side of a house so that it reaches up 15 feet. If Camden grabs the ladder at its base and pulls it 3 feet farther from the house, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach now? (The answer is not 12 ft.) Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.

A boy slides down a frictionless slide. If the boy wants to go twice as fast at the bottom of the slide, by what factor should his parents increase the height of the slide? 4.0 0.50 2.0 3.0