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Susie can walk due south 3 blocks and due West four blocks to get from her House to her school how much shorter is it if she travels diagonally from her house to her school round to the nearest tenth

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Using pythagorean theorem you find out that the diagonal length is 5 so the you take 7-5 and you get that it would be 2 blocks shorter

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