Linear Road is a long straight road running east-west. CG’s house is located 400 ft north of the road. 600 ft down the road, DG’s house is located 800 ft north of the road. You walk in a line from CG's house to some point on the road, then in a line to DG’s house. What point on the road should you walk to so that your walk is as short as possible ? State your answer in a sentence. HINT: Use units of hundreds of feet to simplify the work. NOTE: You must solve this problem using the process in the website handout and lecture, not geometry, physics nor any other discipline.
Linear Road is a long straight road running east-west. CG’s house is located 400 ft north of the road. 600 ft down the road, DG’s house is located 800 ft north of the road. You walk in a line from CG's house to some point on the road, then in a line to DG’s house. What point on the road should you walk to so that your walk is as short as possible ? State your answer in a sentence. HINT: Use units of hundreds of feet to simplify the work. NOTE: You must solve this problem using the process in the website handout and lecture, not geometry, physics nor any other discipline.
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Linear Road is a long straight road running east-west.
CG's house is located 400 ft north of the road. 600 ft down the road, DG's house is located 800 ft north of the road.
You walk in a line from CG’s house to some point on the road, then in a line to DG’s house.
What point on the road should you walk to so that your walk is as short as possible ? State your answer in a sentence.
HINT: Use units of hundreds of feet to simplify the work.
NOTE: You must solve this problem using the process in the website handout and lecture,
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not geometry, physics nor any other discipline.
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