document.write( "Question 1168155: Carol and George drive away from a camp ground. Carol went North and George went
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "A function that describes Carol's distance from the origin as a function of time is . Similarly, for George's trip: . Where is measured in kilometers and is in hours. Each of these functions describes the measure of a leg of a right triangle at any given time , so the distance between the two is the square root of the sum of the squares of the two functions. Thank you, Mr. Pythagoras. So:\r
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