To get to the sandwich shop, you left home and drove 6 miles south and then 10 miles west. if a bird flew from your house to the sandwich shop in a straight line, how far do you think the bird would fly

For this case we can model the problem as a rectangle triangle.
 We know:
 Length of the sides of the triangle
 We want to know:
 Hypotenuse of the triangle.
 Therefore, applying the Pythagorean theorem, we have:
 h ^ 2 = 6 ^ 2 + 10 ^ 2
 Clearing h we have:
 
 Rewriting we have:
 
 
 
 
 
 the bird would fly about:
  miles

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