SOLUTION: A person drives due east for 20 miles and then due north for 30 miles. How far is she from where she started?
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Question 363185: A person drives due east for 20 miles and then due north for 30 miles. How far is she from where she started?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The two displacements are legs of a right triangle.
The hypotenuse is the distance from the starting point.
Use the Pythagorean theorem,
miles
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