Ray is 12 miles from home.
Let x be Ray's distance from home. His distance is one leg of a right triangle; 5, Rosa's distance from home, is the other. The hypotenuse, the distance between them, is 1 more than Ray's distance from home, or x+1. Using the Pythagorean theorem,
5²+x²=(x+1)²
25+x²=(x+1)(x+1)
Multiplying the binomials, we have
25+x²=x*x+1*x+1*x+1*1
25+x²=x²+1x+1x+1
25+x²=x²+2x+1
Subtracting x² from both sides,
25 = 2x+1
Subtracting 1 from both sides,
24 = 2x
Divide both sides by 2, and we have
12 = x
Ray is 12 miles from home.
Answer:
it is 6/7, you can simplify that fraction by dividing with 7
