Question

Joe and Raul lived in different towns and decided it would be fun to get a homing pigeon to send messages to each other. (A homing pigeon will fly to a specific place, its home, and a small message can be attached to its leg.) To drive from Joe's house to Raul's you need to go 6 miles north and 8 miles west. If the pigeon flies directly from one house to the other, how far does the pigeon fly to deliver the message?

100 miles
10 miles
28 miles
14 miles

Answer 1

Draw a picture:
The answer is going to be the value of c. You can apply the Pythagorean Theorem here since we have a right triangle. What do you get?

Answer 2

100?

Answer 3

Which is 10?

Answer 4

Right, so your answer is 10