SOLUTION: 1: To get from point A to point B you must avoid walking through a pond. To avoid the pond, you must walk 34 meters south and 41 meters east. To the nearest hundreth of a meter, ho
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Question 946204: 1: To get from point A to point B you must avoid walking through a pond. To avoid the pond, you must walk 34 meters south and 41 meters east. To the nearest hundreth of a meter, how many meters would be saved if it were possible to walk through the pond?
21.74
34
53.26
75
Could someone show how this problems works? I have tried
34 squared plus 41 squared equals C squared
1156 plus 1681 equals C squared
2837 equals C squared
C equals 53.26 Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! So to walk this way from A to B you actually walk, .
If you could walk straight through, those distances would form the legs of a right triangle and the distance would be the hypotenuse.
So then you could have saved,
which is approximately,
