SOLUTION: A working student has to deliver a package to a client. Before he can reach the client's office, he has to travel 3 km due to east, then 4 km due to south, and then 6 km due to wes

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Question 678384: A working student has to deliver a package to a client. Before he can reach the client's office, he has to travel 3 km due to east, then 4 km due to south, and then 6 km due to west. How far is their office from the client's office?
Answer by fcabanski(1391)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you plot this on a coordinate plane starting at (0,0) you see it ends up at the point (-3,-4). Use the distance formula between the two points. The distance formula is the squareroot of the difference between the x's squared plus the distance between the y's squared.


. The distance is 5 miles.

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