SOLUTION: If you walk 2.0 miles, turn right and walk due west for 2.1 miles, then how far are you from the place you started, as measured along a straight line between the starting point and

Question 613714: If you walk 2.0 miles, turn right and walk due west for 2.1 miles, then how far are you from the place you started, as measured along a straight line between the starting point and ending point.
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

 

Hi, 

If you walk 2.0 miles, turn right and walk due west for 2.1 miles, 

how far are you from the place you started

(as measured along a straight line between the starting point and ending point)

Draw a picture in Your mind or on paper of the right triangle formed

  = far are you from the place you started = 2.9 mi