document.write( "Question 281492: ..4.. If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will they be at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I thought drawing it. I thought about making it a right angle and doing the Csquared =Asquared + Bsquared but that didn't work and I am not sure how to take a number and come up with what is it square root is.
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If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will they be at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?
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\n" ); document.write( "In 2 hours, one plane is 300 miles north
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\n" ); document.write( "That makes a right triangle with sides of 300 and 400 miles
\n" ); document.write( "They hypotenuse is 500 miles, the 3, 4, 5 triangle
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\n" ); document.write( "I don't know why you said that didn't work.
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