Question

Shane walked 3 meters west then turned the corner to walk 4 meters north to get to the library . He is going to walk home on the diagonal street that lead to his house. How many meters is that street? Enter on the number without a unit of measurement

Answer 1

5 meters

Explanation:

Since, the 3m and 4m are NOT the hypotenuse (since the hypotenuse is diagonal) we can use the pythagorean thm.

`3^(2) +4^2=C^(2) \\9+16= C^(2)\\C^(2)=25\\C=5`