SOLUTION: A car drives south 3 miles and stops. It then drives 4 miles east and stops again. How far is the car from it's original location?
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Question 667380: A car drives south 3 miles and stops. It then drives 4 miles east and stops again. How far is the car from it's original location?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A car drives south 3 miles and stops. It then drives 4 miles east and stops again. How far is the car from it's original location?
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Draw the pictue.
You have 2 legs of a right triangle.
One leg is 3; the 2nd leg is 4.
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Find the hypotenuse using Pythagoras:
d = sqrt[3^2+4^2]
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d = sqrt[25]
distance is 5 miles
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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