The frostburg-truth bus travels on a straight road from frostburg mall to sojourner truth park. the mall is 4 miles east and 4 miles north of the city center. the park is 2 miles west and 4 miles south of the center. how far is it from the mall to the park to the nearest tenth of a mile?

The paths from the center (city) to the park, and from the center to the mall all create triangles, with the two hypotenuses lined up to be the straight road the bus travels on. Adding the lengths of both hypotenuses would yield the correct answer. This is shown below:

c1^2 = 4^2 + 4^2
c1 = 5.657

c2^2 = 2^2 + 4^2
c2 = 4.472

Total length traveled by bus = 4.472 + 5.657 = 10.129 miles = 10.1 miles