Question

On the school playground, the slide is due west of the tire swing and due south of the monkey bars. If the distance between the slide and the tire swing is 12 feet and the distance between the tire swing and the monkey bars is 20 feet, how far is the slide from the monkey bars?

Please do step by step :)
This is from IXL Y.3 8th grade math

Answer 1

Explanation:

Draw a picture!

You get a right triangle with hypotenuse = 20 ft and horizontal leg = 12 ft

Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the vertical leg:

vertical leg = √(20²-12²) = √256 = 16 ft