document.write( "Question 936866: An airplane traveling east at 600mph passes directly over the city hall at 6 am. Another airplane traveling north at 500 mph Passes directly over the same city hall at 7 am. What is the distance between these two airplane at 8 am
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An airplane traveling east at 600mph passes directly over the city hall at 6 am. Another airplane traveling north at 500 mph Passes directly over the same city hall at 7 am.
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\n" ); document.write( "From the information given, we know:
\n" ); document.write( "600 mph plane travels east for 2 hrs, for a distance of: 2*600 = 1200 mi
\n" ); document.write( "500 mph place travels north for 1 hr, for a distance of 500 mi
\n" ); document.write( "Using pythag a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where
\n" ); document.write( "a = 1200
\n" ); document.write( "b = 500
\n" ); document.write( "c = distance between the planes a 8
\n" ); document.write( "c = $\"sqrt%281200%5E2+%2B+500%5E2%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "c = 1300 mi between the planes at 8 AM \n" ); document.write( "

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