SOLUTION: scott wants to swim across a river that is 400 meters wide. He begins swimming perpendicular to the shore he started from but ends up 100 meters down river from where he started be
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Question 746563: scott wants to swim across a river that is 400 meters wide. He begins swimming perpendicular to the shore he started from but ends up 100 meters down river from where he started because of the current. How far did he actually swim from his starting point? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! scott wants to swim across a river that is 400 meters wide.
He begins swimming perpendicular to the shore he started from but ends up 100 meters down river from where he started because of the current.
How far did he actually swim from his starting point?
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We can treat this as a right triangle problem where his route across the
river is the hypotenuse (h), with legs of 400 and 100 meters
h =
crunch it in you calc, you should get
h = 412.3 m swam from his starting point
