Question

Your house is at point c. a post office is located directly west of your house at point d. let point e represent your school,
which is directly west of the post office. find the distance from your house to your school if cd = 1.7 miles and de = 2.4
miles.
a 3.1 miles
b. 41 miles
c. 4.3 miles
d. 5.1 miles

Answer 1

The distance between your house and school is 4.1 miles.

According to the given question.

Point c represents your house.

Point d represents post office which is directly west to the point c i.e from house.

And point e represents school which is west of the post office.

Also, it is given that the distance between house and post office, cd is 1.7 miles.

And the distance between the post office and school,de is 2.4 miles.

Now, if we see the attached figure we can say that

cd + de = ce

⇒ 1.7miles  + 2.4miles  = 4.1 miles

Hence, the distance between your house and school is 4.1 miles.

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