Question

What is the distance from the point Y to WX in the figure below? PLEASE HELP ASAP!!

Answer 1

Answer is 16 letter F

Answer 2

Answer:

F. 16

Step by step explanation:    

We are asked to find the distance between point Y to line segment WX.

We can see two right triangles in our given graph. We will use Pythagorean theorem to solve this problem.

$YZ^{2} =34^{2} -30^{2}$

$YZ^{2} =1156 -900$

$YZ^{2} =256$

Now we will take square root of both sides of our equation.

$YZ= \sqrt{256}$

$YZ= \sqrt{16\times 16}$

$YZ= 16$

We can see that distance between point Y and line segment WX will be equal to length of YZ that is 16. Therefore, option F is the correct choice.