Lupe's Ladder Company sells inexpensive ladders that can be leaned against your wall to help with household chores like dusting, watering hard to reach plants, or painting the tops of your walls. Leaning a ladder against a wall creates a right triangle and for safety Lupe recommends that the base angle must be 55 degrees or more. If not, the ladder is liable to slip. Jaime and John both are trying to paint the top of the wall so they each place a different ladder at a different spot 11 feet high on the wall. If Jamie is using a ladder that is 12 feet long and John is using a ladder that is 15 feet long, which of them are meeting Lupe's safety standards? Group of answer choices Jaime is safe, John is not John is safe, Jamie is not Both are safe Neither are safe.
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5. Lupe's Ladder Company sells inexpensive ladders that can be leaned against your wall to help with household chores like dusting, watering hard to reach plants, or painting the tops of your walls. Leaning a ladder against a wall creates a right triangle and for safety Lupe recommends that the base angle must be 55 degrees or more. If not, the ladder is liable to slip.
Jaime and John both are trying to paint the top of the wall so they each place a different ladder at a different spot 11 feet high on the wall. If Jamie is using a ladder that is 12 feet long and John is using a ladder that is 15 feet long, which of them are meeting Lupe's safety standards?
Group of answer choices
Jaime is safe, John is not
John is safe, Jamie is not
Both are safe
Neither are safe.
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