SOLUTION: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collision detector warns the driver that there is
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Question 143978: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collision detector warns the driver that there is a tain 50 meters from the car and heading toward the same crossing. How far is the tain from the crossing?
This problem is in a chapter that includes factoring equations and the Pythagorean theorem. Thanks for any help you can give me! Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source):
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