Question

Your AssignmentJane is training for a triathlon. After swimming a few laps, she leaves the health club andbikes 16 miles south. She then runs 12 miles west. Her trainer bikes from the health club tomeet Jane at the end of her run.

Answer 1

The diagram representing the scenario is shown below:

Line AC represents the distance that her trainer biked. This is the hypotenuse of the right angled triangle. We would determine AC by applying pythagoras theorem which is expresed as

hyotenuse^2 = opposite side^2 + adjacent side^2

AC^2 = 16^2 + 12^2 = 256 + 144 = 400

Taking square root of both sides,

AC = 20

The distance biked by the trainer is 20 miles