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Alice leaves her house and walks to school. She walks 45 meters south and 336 meters east. How far is Alice from her house?

User Grzegorzz
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she is 381 meters away from her house
User Naval Hasan
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The way to figure this out is to first set it up on an x/y graph. it also looks like a compass, which tells you which direction east and south is. So first draw a point where 45 would be (also south). Now draw a point around 336 east. You are now going to use the Pythagorean Theorem (Asquared +Bsquared =Csquared) to figure it out. 336 squared, + 45 squared. When you get that answer, square it, giving you your distance. Answer = 339
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