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Option A:
The shortest distance Mark can cover to reach home early is 54.7 miles.
Solution:
Towards North = 35 miles
Towards West = 42 miles
Using Pythagoras theorem,
<em>In right triangle, squares of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.</em>
Let x be the hypotenuse.
Taking square root on both sides, we get
x = 54.67
x = 54.7
The shortest distance Mark can cover to reach home early is 54.7 miles.
Option A is the correct answer.