Question

a boy and a girl ar standing together in a field. The boy runs north at 3ft/sec. At the same time, the girl runs east at 4ft/sec. After 2 seconds, what is the distance between the boy and the girl?

Answer 1

calculate the distance the boy ran, and the girl ran seperately and then add them up

Answer 2

distance= rate times time

Answer 3

does this help?

Answer 4

still a lil confused

Answer 5

2*3

Answer 6

4*2

Answer 7

6 and 8

Answer 8

distance is 2

Answer 9

oh!

Answer 10

oh, wait since the boy north and the girl ran east, it forms a right triangle, use the Pythagoras theorem to deal with this

Answer 11

okay

Answer 12

best to draw the lay out on paper so u can have a clear view of what's the question is about