Miles has a square garden in his backyard. He decides to decrease the size of the garden by 1 foot on each side in order to make
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Answer:
2.1 miles
Step-by-step explanation:
you can see a drawing of the situation in the attached picture (you need to draw all the places mentioned and the distance between them),
this way we can form a right triangle between the school and the hospital with measures of sides: 1.7 and 1.2 miles
and the green line is the straight line between the school and the hospital, so you need pythagoras to find the value:
rounding to the nearest tenth:
2.1 miles
