SOLUTION: Elli and Ryan decided to take a shortcut through the woods to go to their friend’s house. When they went home they decided to take the long way around the woods to avoid getting

Question 1183935: Elli and Ryan decided to take a shortcut through the woods to go to their friend’s house. When they went home they decided to take the long way around the woods to avoid getting blackberry vine scratches. What total distance did they walk? Here is a link to the image: https://imgur.com/a/HZE2zM1
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two legs of a right triangle are 600 and 175.
They took the hypotenuse
The sum of the squares of 600 and 175 is 390625
the square root of that is 625 m. (7-24-25 right triangle)
The distance with the shortcut was 625 m
The distance the other way was 775 m
The total distance is the sum or 1400 m
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