Elementary Geometry for College Students (6th Edition)

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 9781285195698
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-569-8

Chapter 4 - Section 4.1 - Properties of a Parallelogram - Exercises - Page 178: 39

Answer

We can obtain the correct answer using the Pythagorean theorem, but the book wants us to use a ruler to find the answer. Doing this, we find that the plane is going about 255 miles per hour.
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