SOLUTION: Every day after school, Edy takes the bus to the library. To get there, she travels south 3 miles. Later her father picks her up, and they drive east for 4 miles to get home. How
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Question 1023339: Every day after school, Edy takes the bus to the library. To get there, she travels south 3 miles. Later her father picks her up, and they drive east for 4 miles to get home. How far away does Edy live from her school? Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If you draw the diagram you get a right triangle. Its legs are 3 miles south and 4 miles east. The hypotenuse, c, is the distance she lives from school
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
where you easily find c = 5 miles, her distance from school...
