Rushi is camping in the wilderness, he parks his car and walks 10 feet straight and then takes a right turn and walks 20 feet. He encounters some magic mushrooms which throws his sense of direction off and proceeds to take another right turn and walks 40 feet. Finally, he takes a left turn and walks 20 feet and sets up his camp for the night.
Find the distance (in feet) between the point where Rushi parked his car and the point where he set up camp for the night?
Solution
Rushi's actions can be traced into the following diagram,
To find the distance between the starting and the final point we can basically sketch out the right-angle triangle involved.
We know that the ending point is 40 feet away horizontally and 30 feet away vertically.
Hence the distance between the starting and the camping point is 50 feet.
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