Question

Hannah places her home on a grid so that each unit square on the grid equates to 1 mile. She uses the fact that the major streets in her town are located 1 mile apart and run at right angles to each other to place her school 5 miles south and 3 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.

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