SOLUTION: A city block 500 feet by 500 feet has a large building 300 feet by 400 feet in the NW corner. The rest of the block is an unobstructed paved lot. What's the shortest distance from
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: A city block 500 feet by 500 feet has a large building 300 feet by 400 feet in the NW corner. The rest of the block is an unobstructed paved lot. What's the shortest distance from the SW corner to the NE corner of the city block, going through the paved lot (to the nearest foot)? This question is from textbook
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A city block 500 feet by 500 feet has a large building 300 feet by 400 feet in the NW corner. The rest of the block is an unobstructed paved lot. What's the shortest distance from the SW corner to the NE corner of the city block, going through the paved lot (to the nearest foot)?
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The route would be from the SW corner of the lot to the SE corner of the blg to the NE corner of the lot.
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This involves finding the total of the 2 hypotenuses of two right triangles:
h1 = SqRt(100^2 + 300)
h1 = 316.2 ft
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h2 = SqRt(200^2 + 400^2)
h2 = 447.2 ft
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316.2 + 447.2 = 763 ft
