Geena is meeting her brother at a cafe on Bradford Rd and Blanco Rd. She is currently on the corner of Lafayette Ave. and Blanco Rd. Her brother tells Geena that the shortest route is straight down Blanco Rd.
Geena disagrees. She thinks the shortest route is down Lafayette Ave., turn onto Smith St., then on Blanco Rd. until she reaches the cafe.
Who is correct? What is the difference in the two routes?

The rumpart family is building a new room onto their house. the width of the new room will be 16 feet. the length of the room will be 4% greater than the width. write an expression to find the length of the new room. what will be the area of this new room?

Candy lives in the center of town. her friend darlene lives 28 miles to the east and her friend dana lives 21 miles north. approximately how far do dana and darline live apart ?

Max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.