Question

Kenji is deep-sea diving with two friends. Ezra is exploring a coral reef 12 meters in front of Kenji, and Tori is floating on the surface directly above Kenji. If Tori and Ezra are 20 meters apart, how far apart are Kenji and Tori?

Answer 1

Explanation:

We know that the hypotenuse is 20m and one leg is 12m.

Pythagorean Theorem= a^2 + b^2 = c^2

12^2 + b^2 = 20^20

144 + b^2 = 400

b^2 = 256

Square root of 256 = 16

Kenji and Tori are 16 meters away from each other.