Quinton typically walks 28 yards south on Pine Street and 45 yards east on Maple Avenue in order to get to school. How much shorter would his walk be if he took the shortcut shown below? (50PTS)

20

you have to find the hypotenuse by finding the square root of 28 squares plus 45 squared which equals 53 yards.  you have to add the two legs of the right triangle so we can subtract the shortcut length from that. So you have to do 28 plus 45 which equals 73 yards. 73 minus 53 is 20. So the answer is 20 yards.

i would have to say it is c.