SOLUTION: You ride your bike to your friend's house after school. To get there, you bike due south for 6 miles and then due east for 4.5 miles. To get home, you take a shortcut that is a dia

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Question 970623: You ride your bike to your friend's house after school. To get there, you bike due south for 6 miles and then due east for 4.5 miles. To get home, you take a shortcut that is a diagonal path. What is the distance of the diagonal path? Round your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's a right triangle.
Find the hypotenuse.