What is the distance from Dinky to Hedud?

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What is the distance from Dinky to Hedud?

The distance between two points on a map is found by using the Pythagorean theorem when you know how far apart they are horizontally and vertically. If Dinky and Hedud are separated by 9 miles east–west and 40 miles north–south, the straight-line distance is the hypotenuse: sqrt(9^2 + 40^2) = sqrt(81 + 1600) = sqrt(1681) = 41 miles. So 41 miles is the correct distance. The other numbers would require different horizontal and vertical separations that aren’t implied by the given positions.

The distance between two points on a map is found by using the Pythagorean theorem when you know how far apart they are horizontally and vertically. If Dinky and Hedud are separated by 9 miles east–west and 40 miles north–south, the straight-line distance is the hypotenuse: sqrt(9^2 + 40^2) = sqrt(81 + 1600) = sqrt(1681) = 41 miles. So 41 miles is the correct distance. The other numbers would require different horizontal and vertical separations that aren’t implied by the given positions.

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