SOLUTION: Suppose you travel north for 65 kilometers then travel east 75 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point?

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Question 47554This question is from textbook college algebra with modeling and visualization
: Suppose you travel north for 65 kilometers then travel east 75 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point?This question is from textbook college algebra with modeling and visualization

Answer by stanbon(48516) (Show Source):
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Suppose you travel north for 65 kilometers then travel east 75 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point?
Draw the picture.
You have two sides of a right triangle.
Join the end points and you will have the hypotenuse of the triangle.
The answer to your problem is the length of the hypotenuse.
h=sqrt(65^2+75^2)
h=sqrt9850=99.25 miles
Cheers,
Stan H.