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3) Ashley uses the two points on the coordinate plane to represent the location of her house and the public library. Each unit on the graph represents 1 mi. How far is the public library from Ashley’s? Show your work.

3 Ashley uses the two points on the coordinate plane to represent the location of her house and the public library Each unit on the graph represents 1 mi How fa class=

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By counting grid squares, we see the library is 5 miles north and 6 miles east of Ashley's house. Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can find the straight-line distance to be
.. d = √(5^2 +6^2)
.. = √(25 +36)
.. = √61 . . . . . miles
.. ≈ 7.81 . . . . miles

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