Jackson is 54 miles from lazy r resort. ontario is 31 miles south of jackson. a land developer proposes building a shortcut road directly connect ontario and lazy r draw a picture and find the length of this new road

Let A represents Jack's point, O represents Ontario and R represents the Lazy R resort. The figure showing the positions will be as in the figure shown:

The shortest distance will be found using the Pythagorean theorem:
c²=a²+b²
plugging the values you get:
c²=54²+31²
c²=3877 
c=62.266 miles

Cbecause they are equal so that means it is the same on both sides? ! hope this