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a hot air balloon goes 350 feet into the air and drifts east 600 feet how far id the balloon from the launch point

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If you imagine it like the picture below, you could use the pythagorean theorem to solve for x
a hot air balloon goes 350 feet into the air and drifts east 600 feet how far id the-example-1
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