Let <span>the town courthouse be the origin of coordinate plane, the positive direction of x-axis is west and negative direction is east, the positive direction of y-axis is north and negative direction is south. Then a lawyer home has coordinates (-2,3) and lawyer office has coordinates (5, -21).
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Use the distance formula

to get the <span>distance between lawyer's home and office:
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Answer: 25 miles.
84, 000, 108 is the answer.
just count how many there and and eliminate one by one
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