If you place a 34-foot ladder against the top of a 30-foot building, how many feet will the bottom of the ladder be from the bottom of the building?

It is 16 feet from the bottom of the building

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the bottom of the ladder be x feet from the bottom of the building.

Note that the length of the ladder becomes the hypotenuse.

Then using Pythagoras theorem,

We solve for x,

Therefore 16 feet from the bottom of the building

step-by-step explanation: you take each of the numbers and divide by the amount then you take the range