- 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​

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.

answer: 230 miles ( vote ! )

step-by-step explanation:

180.39 minus 17.99 equals 162.4

then divide 162.4 by .80 to get 230

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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