SOLUTION: After school, Nancy skateboards directly from school to an ice cream parlor and then from the ice cream parlor to a skate park. The ice cream parlor is 8 miles south of the school

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Question 1199874: After school, Nancy skateboards directly from school to an ice cream parlor and then from the ice cream parlor to a skate park. The ice cream parlor is 8 miles south of the school and the skate park is 6 miles east of the ice cream parlor. What is the straight-line cdfvbgfadistance between the school and the skate park?
Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
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Apply the Pythagorean formula for the distance 

    sqrt%288%5E2%2B6%5E2%29 = sqrt%2864%2B36%29 = sqrt%28100%29 = 10 miles.    ANSWER

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