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Two cars leave the same parking lot, with one heading north and the other heading east. After several minutes, the eastbound car has traveled 6 kilometers. If the two cars are now a straight-line distance of 10 kilometers apart, how far has the northbound car traveled?

 Apr 22, 2016
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Use Pythagoras theorem. The distance between the cars, 10km, is the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle, one leg of which is 6km and the other of which is, say, x km

 

x = sqrt(10^2 - 6^2) km. 

 

You can crunch the numbers.

 Apr 22, 2016

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