Question

Park

14. You walk 2 miles from your house to the park
and 4.5 miles from the park to the lake. Then you
return home along a straight path from the lake.
How many miles do you walk from the lake
back to your house? What is the total distance
you walk?
2 mi
THouse
4.5 mil
Lake

Answer 1

Use the Pythagorean theorem. Your would square 4.5 and 2 and the add them together. Then you would take the square route of that number and that would be the number of miles it took from the lake to your house.