SOLUTION: solve the problem
two cars leave an intersection. one car travels north; the other east. When the car traveling north has gone 9 miles, the distance between the cars was 3 miles
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Question 107004: solve the problem
two cars leave an intersection. one car travels north; the other east. When the car traveling north has gone 9 miles, the distance between the cars was 3 miles more than the distance traveled by the car heading east. how far had the eastbound car traveled?
Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
HERE WE HAVE A RIGHT TRIANGLE.
9^2+X^2=12^2
81+X^2=144
X^2=144-81
X^2=63
X=SQRT63
X=7.94 ANSWER FOR THE DISTANCE THE CAR TRAVELED.
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