Well visualize a 10 foot ladder leaning on a wall and how the space from the distance of the wall are gonna form an angle in this question it tells you it forms a 30 degree angle so your gonna go up 10 feet and out how much the angle is on a slant and multiply the two numbers?
the space between is what your determining.
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^that is the ladder