SOLUTION: suppose you travel north for 35 kilometers then travel east 65 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point? North and east can be considered the directions of the y-and

Question 63623: suppose you travel north for 35 kilometers then travel east 65 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point? North and east can be considered the directions of the y-and x-axis respectively. Round to the tenth's place.
Answer by joyofmath(189) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
suppose you travel north for 35 kilometers then travel east 65 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point? North and east can be considered the directions of the y-and x-axis respectively. Round to the tenth's place.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem. You have a right triangle with one side being 35 and the other being 65. The distance is the hypotenuse of that triangle:
so kilometers.
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