Your college quadrangle is 82 meters long and 69 meters wide. When you are late for class, you can walk (well, run) at 6 miles per hour. You are at one corner of the quad and your class is at the directly opposite corner. How much time can you save by cutting across the quad rather than walking around the edge?

Your college quadrangle is 82 meters long and 69 meters wide. When you are late for class, you can walk (well, run) at 6 miles per hour. You are at one corner of the quad and your class is at the directly opposite corner. How much time can you save by cutting across the quad rather than walking around the edge?

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

5th Edition

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Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

Chapter1: Introduction And Vectors

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