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You drive from your house to the dry cleaners, which is 12 miles east of your house. You then drive to the grocery store from the dry cleaners. The grocery store is 15 miles west of your house. What distance did you cover?

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Answer:

39 miles

Explanation:

we will make your house to be the central point in the four cardinal points.

Please follow the diagram on the attachment to get the movement clearly.

First, you move to a dry cleaners 12miles east of your house, and then to a grocery store 15miles west of your house.

This means you must have moved back to your house before going to the grocery which is 15miles west of your house.

so to and fro from your house to dry cleaners = 12*2 = 24 miles.

Then the total distance you cover will be = 24 +15 = 39 miles

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The total distance traveled is 39 miles.

How do you calculate the total distance?

To calculate the total distance, let consider the position of the house is at the center. The attachment shows the position of the house is at the center.

Given that the dry cleaners are 12 miles east of the house. Also, the grocery store is 15 miles west of the house.

The motion given is that we drive from the house to the dry cleaners.

  • It means the traveling distance is 12 miles.

Then we drive to the grocery store from the dry cleaners. It means that we crossed the house while moving towards the grocery store.

The distance covered from dry cleaners to the grocery store is given below.

Distance = 12 miles  + 15 miles

The total distance covered is given below.

Distance = 12 miles + 12 miles  + 15 miles

Distance = 39 miles

Hence the total distance covered is 39 miles.

To know more about the distance, follow the link given below.

https://brainly.com/question/1214027.

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