Question

Describe how to go from the hardware store, , to the food store, B, on the map. Use words like left, right, up, down, north, south, east, and west. Each square on the coordinate plane is a city block.

Answer 1

Answer: To go from store A to store B a person would have to walk south 6 city blocks.

Explanation:

Step 1:

Store A is at (-2, 3) and store B is at (-2, -3). The shortest way to go from store A to store B is a straight line drawn from A to B.

So the only direction a person needs to go from store A to store B is south (down).

Step 2:

Now we need to calculate how long they have to walk to get from store A to store B.

To find the distance between two points on a graph, we use

here (-2, 3) is () and (-2, -3) is ().

So a person would have to walk south store A for 6 city blocks to get to store B.

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