Helen has two daughters Mercy amd Glory, they are becoming fat. so Helen decided to buy two cycles and bought good cycles for each of them. there are two roads from their home, one is towards north direction, another towards south direction. They started cycling everyday together but one day, they decided to go in different directions, Mercy towards north direction and Glory towards east direction. They covered 3km and 4km respectively in 30 minutes . fInd the distance between Mercy and Glory
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as north and east are perpendicular to each other.....
we can take a right angle triangle in which perpendicular distances are north and south and the hypotenuse is the distance between them.....
by using Pythagoras theorem we can solve the problem.....
- Rohith.
the distance between Mercy and Glory = 5 km
Step-by-step explanation:
N
W E
S
Mercy goes towards north direction = 3 km
Glory goes towards east direction. = 4 km
B
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4km
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Home ----- 3 km -----A
the distance between Mercy and Glory = √3² + 4²
= √9 + 16
= √25
= 5 km
the distance between Mercy and Glory = 5 km
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