Question

An archaeologist finds dinosaur bones 100 miles East and 200 miles North of his office. He finds whale bones 100 miles East and 300 miles South of his office. Graph and label these two points. How far apart are they?

Answer 1

Let's draw a picture of our problem:

where the red point (100 East, 200 Norh) represents the place where Archaeologist found the dinosaur. The blue point (100 East, 300 South) represents the place where Arcaeologist found the whale bones. Additionally, the green point (0,0) represents Arcaeologist's offfice.