Question

A car start from rest and move 6km due east and 8km due south. Calculate the distance covered

Answer 1

The car covered 14 km of distance, but it's only 10 km southeast of where it started.

Answer 2

for this you use the pythagoreom theorem

6^2 + 8^2

36 + 64 = 100

the square root of 100 is 10

10 is the answer