SOLUTION: After school, Nancy skateboards directly from school to an ice cream parlor and then from the ice cream parlor to a skate park. The ice cream parlor is 8 miles south of the school

Question 1199874: After school, Nancy skateboards directly from school to an ice cream parlor and then from the ice cream parlor to a skate park. The ice cream parlor is 8 miles south of the school and the skate park is 6 miles east of the ice cream parlor. What is the straight-line cdfvbgfadistance between the school and the skate park?
Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Apply the Pythagorean formula for the distance 

     =  =  = 10 miles.    ANSWER

Solved.

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