SOLUTION: You and a friend go biking. You bike 12 miles north an2 miles east. What is the straight-line distance from your starting point? Round answer to the nearest hundredths.

Question 388428: You and a friend go biking. You bike 12 miles north an2 miles east. What is the straight-line distance from your starting point? Round answer to the nearest hundredths.

Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use pythagorean theorem since the trianlge formed by these three line segments is a right triangle

rounded to nearest hundreth

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