A boat travels 45 miles east then 60 miles north, how far is it from where it started. Draw this. The hypotenuse of the right triangle is the square root (45^2)+(60^2)=square root of 2025=3600=square root of 5625, or 75 miles.
Answer:
ok, the boat traveled on 2 lines of a triangle, so use the
Pythagorean Theorem to determine the third side.
75 miles
