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- Two cars leave the same parking lot, with one heading north and the other heading east. After several minutes, the northbound car has traveled 6 miles, and the eastbound car has traveled 8 miles. Measured in a straight line, how far apart are the two cars? 1 I​

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Step-by-step explanation

Use Pythagoras theorem. The distance between the cars, 8km, is the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle, one leg of which is 6km and the other of which is, say, x km

x = sqrt(8^2 - 6^2) km.

You can crunch the numbers.

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