SOLUTION: If two planes leave the same airport at 1pm, how many mile apart will they be at 3pm if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?

Question 300794: If two planes leave the same airport at 1pm, how many mile apart will they be at 3pm if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
After 2 hours, Plane North is miles north of the airport, and Plane West is miles west of the airport. The two distances form the legs of a right triangle. The distance between them is the hypotenuse of the triangle and can be determined using Pythagorean theorem.

They would be 500 miles apart.
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