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

Question 86180: Suppose you travel north for 65 kilometers then travel east 75 kilometers. How far are you from your stating point?
Found 2 solutions by psbhowmick, ptaylor:
Answer by psbhowmick(878) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Answer by ptaylor(2198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your route has traced out two legs of a right triangle. The hypotnuse of the right triangle is the shortest distance from where you are to where you started from and this is given by: c^2=a^2+b^2 which is the Pythagorean Theorem. c is the hypotnuse and a and b are the two legs.
c^2=65^2+75^2
c^2=4225+5625
c^2=9850 take square root of both sides
c=99.247 kilometers

Hope this helps----ptaylor
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