Question

An airplane is 34 ground miles from the end of the runway and 6 miles high when it begins its approach to the airport. To the nearest mile,what is the distance from the airplane to the end of the runway?
Ms. Sue
Use the Pythagorean Theorem.

want to know the answer
Yes
35

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