Problema Solution
tom travels 8 miles west to work and Sue travels 15 miles south to school. how many miles away do they work from each other?
Answer provided by our tutors
Tom's path to work and Sue's path to work are legs of a right triangle
the distance d between them is the hypotenuse of the right triangle
using the Pythagorean Theorem we have
d^2 = 8^2 + 15^2
by solving we find
d = 17 mi
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Tom and Sue are 17 miles away from each other.