Answer :
Answer:
2.1 miles
Step-by-step explanation:
you can see a drawing of the situation in the attached picture (you need to draw all the places mentioned and the distance between them),
this way we can form a right triangle between the school and the hospital with measures of sides: 1.7 and 1.2 miles
and the green line is the straight line between the school and the hospital, so you need pythagoras to find the value:
[tex]\sqrt{1.7^2+1.2^2}\\=\sqrt{2.89+1.44}\\=\sqrt{4.33} \\ =2.081[/tex]
rounding to the nearest tenth:
2.1 miles
