Answer:
The ladder is the hypotenuse and one side equals 5 feet.
From the Pythagorean Theorem we can calculate the other side:
other side^2 = 12^2 -5^2
other side^2 = 144 -25
other side^2 = 119
other side = 10.9087121146
Rounding, we get 11 feet.
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