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A ship travels 10 miles from Point A to Point B, makes a turn of 112, and travels 16 miles to Point C. If the ship travels directly from Point C back to Point A, how many miles will it travel on the last
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A ship travels 10 miles from Point A to Point B, makes a turn of 112, and travels 16 miles to Point C. If the ship travels directly from Point C back to Point A, how many miles will it travel on the last leg of the trip (from Point C to Point A)? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a mile.
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This is Pythagorean's Theorem, with one leg being 10 and the hypotenuse being 16. Using those values in the theorem looks like this:
and
and
so
Take the square root of both sides to find that b = 12.5
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