The frostburg-truth bus travels on a straight road from frostburg mall to sojourner truth park. the mall is 3 miles west and 2 miles south of the city center. the park is 4 miles east and 5 miles north of the center. how far is it from the mall to the park to the nearest tenth of a mile?

We are given with the distances of the Frostburg Mall and Sojourner Truth Park. we get first x which is the point in the axis of the city at which the line connecting the two places passes. the equation is  5 / x = 2/ (7-x ); x is equal to 5. hence the angle of elevation from the point of intersection to the places is 45 degrees. The distance from the park to the city *at intersection* is 5 sq.root of 2 while that at the mall is 2 sq.rt of 2. The total distance is 9.90 miles.