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What is the shortest possible length for the service road?

What is the shortest possible length for the service road?-example-1
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The shortest distance is in red, and the triangle rectangle of the top, has a hypotenuse of 8,82 and the angle on the supermarket corner is 45 degrees, so we can write:

cos(45) = distance/8.82 ==> distance = 8.82 cos(45) = 8.82 (0.7071) = 6.2367

Answer:

6.2 miles

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