SOLUTION: Dan and Frank are roommates. They both leave their house on their bicycles at the same time. Dan rides west for 4 miles and then south for 3 miles. Frank rides east for 1 mile and

Question 316778: Dan and Frank are roommates. They both leave their house on their bicycles at the same time. Dan rides west for 4 miles and then south for 3 miles. Frank rides east for 1 mile and then north for 2 miles. How far apart are they when they both arrive at their destinations?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let east be positive x, west negative x, north positive y, south negative y.
They both start at (0,0).
Dan travels to (-4,-3).
Frank travels to (1,2).
To calculate the distance between them, use the distance formula.

or approximately,
miles
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