)X and Y live in a North-South parallel street. X travels 10 km towards North to reach the east-west street . Y travels 6 km towards south to reach the east –west street . X travels now 4km towards east and y travels 8km towards west and they met each other. What is the distance between x and y?

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  • Jun 30th, 2006
 

16kms

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Srikrishna

  • Jul 7th, 2006
 

answer is 20 square-root of (16square + 12square)

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faizan khan

  • Jul 16th, 2006
 

ans is 20.7, as X moves to north then east it makes a angle of 90deg so we can get the length of hypotaneous, similarla for y we can get the length of hypotaneous..

adding up these two length gives us the actual distance between X and Y

i.e 10+10.7=20.7

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karthik k m

  • Jul 21st, 2006
 

its great.........

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lvsairam

  • Jul 22nd, 2006
 

excellent

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karthi

  • Aug 7th, 2006
 

hi,how to get the answer?

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karthi

  • Aug 7th, 2006
 

Answer is 20 cause distance of x & y is 16&12 so we get 20

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VENUMAHADEVREDDY

  • Oct 2nd, 2006
 

The answer is sqrt((16*16)+(12*12))=20kms

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Raju

  • Feb 2nd, 2007
 

correct Answer is::: ur correct 20:: by hypothesis formula.

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