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While walking on a plane surface, a traveler first headed 18 miles north, then 11 miles west, then 6 miles south and finally 6 miles east. How many miles from the starting point was the traveler after these four legs of the journey?

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4 miles North and 5 miles West.

User Moonlight
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4 miles north 5 miles west but than you must use trig ratios to find the angle for direction if you need direction to NW
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