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Thanks(:-I think the question will be much clearer if you sketch the diagram on a piece of paper.Its a big square made up of 9 squares with each side equal to 1/8 mile.Since you cannot walk diagonally from the bottom left to top right, youll have to walk along the edges.Any way you do it, youll have to traverse 3 sides horizontally and 3 sides diagonally.......
I have this project where I have to answer all these math word problems and I'm a little baffled by this one so please help!
Nine Square blocks of the same size are formed by four streets running north and south and four intersecting streets running east and west. If each block is 1/8 of a mile long, what is the shortest distance from the southwest corner of this arrangement to the northeast corner? (you must follow the streets)
Please explain!
Thanks(:

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I think the question will be much clearer if you sketch the diagram on a piece of paper.
It's a big square made up of 9 squares with each side equal to 1/8 mile.
Since you cannot walk diagonally from the bottom left to top right, you'll have to walk along the edges.
Any way you do it, you'll have to traverse 3 sides horizontally and 3 sides diagonally. (Try it out on paper.)

Thus, the total distance = 3*(1/8) + 3*(1/8)
= 6/8
= 3/4 th of a mile
or, 0.75 miles

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huh? do you have like a book where you can go to a website...? or try youtube? because..that makes no sense! haha. good luck anyway :D
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