in order for mark to get to work he needs to drive 10 miles south and 20 miles east. how many miles would he have to go if there was a road going southeast straight to his destinantion?
For this case what you can do is see the problem as a rectangle triangle where you must find the hypotenuse of it. Therefore we have that the distance traveled will be: d = root ((10) ^ 2 + (20) ^ 2) d = 22.36 miles. Answer: if there was a road going southeast straight to his destinantion he would do to go 22.36 miles.
