SOLUTION: Frances and Joyce 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 gettin
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Question 1181317: Frances and Joyce 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 muddy shoes. If the length of the shortcut is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides, what total distance did they walk?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the length of the shortcut is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides, then the Pythagorean Theorem tells us that the shortcut and the other route form a right triangle.
But there is no information in the problem about any lengths -- so the question that is asked can't be answered.
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