Question

Some customers have requested a shorter tour with fewer stops. All her tours need to start and end at point A. Suggest a shorter route that eliminates two or three stops from her current route. What is the length in miles of the route you suggest? Round to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

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Answer:

  ABDEF -- 0.82 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

The lengths in feet of each of the segments have been worked out in the attachment to this problem:

  https://brainly.com/question/21623703

A shorter route could be one that leaves out stops C, G, H:

ABDEF has length (in feet) of ...

  AB +BD +DE +EF +FA = 817.7 +512.8 +804 +803.77 +1370.4 = 4308.67

There are 5280 feet per mile, so the route in miles is ...

  (4308.67 ft)/(5280 ft/mi) ≈ 0.82 mi

Shorter route ABDEF will have a length of 0.82 miles.