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As shown in the figure, a handyman leans a 16-foot ladder from the ground to the bottom of a roof to clean debris from some gutters. The bottom of the ladder forms a angle with the ground. What is distance from the ground to the top of the ladder?

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The ACT Mathematics Test contains 60 questions to be answered in 60 minutes.  The hardest ACT math questions (the last 10 to 15 questions) fall into two types: advanced concepts and complex questions. Advanced concepts questions cover what you learn in precalculus and trigonometry. FYI: Students that get into Harvard College have an ACT score of 34–36.

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