SOLUTION: An airplane traveling east at 600mph passes directly over the city hall at 6am. Another airplane traveling north at 500 mph passes directly over the same city hall at 7am. What is
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Question 982536: An airplane traveling east at 600mph passes directly over the city hall at 6am. Another airplane traveling north at 500 mph passes directly over the same city hall at 7am. What is the distance between these two airplanes at 8am?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
City hall and the two planes locations become vertices of a right triangle. Hypotenuse is the distance between the two planes.
Eastbound traveled 2 hours.
eastward
Northbound traveled 1 hour.
northward
Distance between the two planes at 8AM,
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