jackson is 54 miles from Lazy R resort. Ontario is 31 miles south of jackson. A land developer proposes building a shortcut road directly connect ontario and Lazy R Draw a picture and find the length of this new road
Let A represents Jack's point, O represents Ontario and R represents the Lazy R resort. The figure showing the positions will be as in the figure shown:
The shortest distance will be found using the Pythagorean theorem: c²=a²+b² plugging the values you get: c²=54²+31² c²=3877 c=62.266 miles
