Question

The movie theater is located 500 kilometers North and 1200 kilometers West of a popular shopping mall. If the locations were placed on a coordinate grid, the shopping mall would be at the origin. What is the distance between the theater and the shopping mall? Round your answer to the nearest kilometer. (Enter number only and NO decimals.) Distance = (answer) kilometers

Answer 1

Solution

For this case we can do the following plot:

We can find the distance using the Pythagoras theorem and we got:

$x=\sqrt[]{(500)^2+(1200)^2}=1300$

Then the final answer for this case is:

Distance 1300 km