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To: meandog
Two automobiles start out in opposite directions. Each go 40 miles; make 90-degree left turns and go 30 miles. How far apart are they?

If they start out in the same place then the answer is a hundred miles (twice a 345 triangle's hypotenuse *10 miles). If they start X miles apart then we get to demonstrate some algebra :0)

151 posted on 11/27/2006 8:04:56 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

I never bothered with memorizing the 345 special case rules. Pythagorean theorem (z = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) works in all cases and yields the correct answer. Then again, public school, since it's so great, should've been able to teach me to memorize all the special cases. Yeah right.


162 posted on 11/27/2006 8:09:03 AM PST by JamesP81 (If you have to ask permission from Uncle Sam, then it's not a right)
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