Tommy the turtle wanders off in the zoo. mr. gorilla saw him walk to the “t” on clancy road and make a right. the t is 1.2 miles from tommy’s pen. gilbert giraffe saw tommy sitting outside the giraffe area. the giraffe area is 1.6 miles from the “t”. exactly how far is tommy the turtle from his pen?

If the T is 1.2 miles from the pen, and the turtle is 1.6 miles away from the T. If this are in a straight line, then you only need to add the distances, so the turtle need to walk the 1.6 miles to reach the "T", and then walk another 1.2 miles to reach his pen, so the total amount is 2.8 miles. But you only know that the pen is 1.2 miles from the "T", so the pen actually could be in the same pat that tommy is walking, so the distance would be only 1.6 miles - 1.2 miles, so the distance will be 0.8 miles.

So there are two options.

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