Question

Find the distance between the points (0, 0) and (36, 15). Can you now find the distance between the two towns A and B ?

Answer 1

Distance between points (0, 0) and (36, 15).
\(=\sqrt{(36-0)^2+(15-0)^2}=\sqrt{36^2+15^2}\)
\(=\sqrt{1296+225}=\sqrt{1521}=39\)

Yes, we can find the distance between the given towns A and B.

Assume town A at the origin point (0, 0).
Therefore, town B will be at point (36, 15) with respect to town A.

Hence, as calculated above, the distance between towns A and B will be 39 km.