Problema Solution
If an airplane passes directly over your head at an altitude of 1 mils, how far (to the nearest hundredth of a mile) is the airplane from your position after it has flown 2 miles farther at the same altitude?
Answer provided by our tutors
From the given values we can visualize a triangle whose sides have the lengths 1 mile and 2 miles respectively. The triangle is a right triangle. To get the plane's distance from you after it has flown two miles farther, we need to get the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Solution:
c2=a2+b2
c2=12+22
c2=1+4
c2=5
c=√5
c=2.24 miles