SOLUTION: Two cars leave an intersection. One car travels east; the other north. When the car traveling east had gone 15 miles, the distance between the cars was 5 miles more than the distan
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Question 301604: Two cars leave an intersection. One car travels east; the other north. When the car traveling east had gone 15 miles, the distance between the cars was 5 miles more than the distance traveled by the car heading north. How far had the northbound car traveled?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The 2 cars and their starting point form a right triangle
One leg is mi
Call the north leg
Then the distance between the cars is
The northbound car had gone 20 mi
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