Answer:
If they hadn't stopped at the gas station and had driven along the diagonal path, their trip would have been 12 miles shorter.
Explanation:
Given that Gigi's Family left their house and drove 14 miles south to a gas station and then 48 miles east to a waterpark, to determine how much shorter would their trip to the waterpark have been if they hadn't stopped at the gas station and had driven along the diagonal path instead the following calculation must be performed, using the Pythagorean theorem:
14 ^ 2 + 48 ^ 2 = X ^ 2
196 + 2,304 = X ^ 2
√ 2500 = X
50 = X
14 + 48 - 50 = X
62 - 50 = X
Thus, if they hadn't stopped at the gas station and had driven along the diagonal path, their trip would have been 12 miles shorter.