SOLUTION: A car is traveling on a road that is perpindicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collision detector warns the driver that there is

Question 328233: A car is traveling on a road that is perpindicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collision detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from the car and heading towards the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up a right triangle and use the Pythagorean theorem .
One leg is from the car to the crossing.
One leg is from the train to the crossing.
The hypotenuse is from the car to the train.

The train is 40m from the crossing.

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