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Three peopel are eitting on a bus . Eve is sested 15 feet directly behind kirk and 8feet directly left of amy .how far kirk is from amy

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Answer:

17

Explanation:

This seating creates a triangle, in which means we should use pythagoras theorem to solve it. Because 15 and 8 are both legs we need to square 15 and 8 and add them. After that we need to take the square root of it.

Steps:

15^2 + 8^2 = 289

sqrt289 = 17

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