Question

Hannah places her home on a grid so that each unit square on the grid equates to 11 mile. She uses the fact that the major streets in her town are located 11 mile apart and run at right angles to each other to place her school 55 miles south and 33 miles east of her home.
 

The distance from Hannah's home to her school, if that distance could be walked in a straight line, would be _____ miles.

Enter your answer as the number that correctly fills in the blank in the previous sentence.

Round your answer to one decimal place, if necessary, like this: 42.5

Answer 1

Answer:

64.1

Step-by-step explanation:

You use Pythagorean theorem which is x^2 +y^2=z^2 (^ this means to the power of) so you would get 55^2+33^2=z^2. solving this would get you z=64.1404708433 or 64.1