First, we are going to find the distance traveled by the ship adding the tow distances:
Distance traveled= 24 mi +33 mi=57 mi
Next, we are going to use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance from

to

:


d^2=1665


mi
Finally, we are going to subtract the two distances:
57 mi -40.8 mi= 16.2 mi
We can conclude that <span>if the ship could have traveled in a straight lime from point a to point c, it could have saved
16.2 miles.</span>
1) Given
2) Adding segments AB and BC together gives AC (Addition postulate, not too sure about the terminology)
3) Segment Addition postulate
4) Segment Addition postulate(Knowing that AC=BD, the distance between BC and CD add up to BD, shown in #3. AB and BC add together to give AC)
5) Subtraction property of Equality
Hope I helped :)
Answer:
f=1
Step-by-step explanation: