Question

To get from your house to your grandparent’s house you must avoid walking through a pond. To avoid the pond, you walk 5 meters south and 12 meters east. How many meters would be saved if it were possible to walk through the pond?

Answer 1

You walked a total of 17 meters avoiding the pond.
If you could walk through the pond, by the Pythagorean theorem, you would walk \(\sqrt{5^2+12^2}=13\) meters.
Thus, you saved 4 meters.

Answer 2

thank you :)

Answer 3

No problem. :D