A helicopter rose vertically 300 m and then flew west 400 m how far was the helicopter from it’s sta

A helicopter rose vertically 300 m and then flew west 400 m how far was the helicopter from it’s starting point?

The distance forms a right triangle. We want the distance of the hypotenuse.

Using our right triangle calculator, we get a distance of 500.

We also could use a shortcut on this problem. If you divide 300 and 400 by 100, you get 3 and 4. Since we want the hypotenuse, you get the famous 3-4-5 triangle ratio. So the answer is 5 * 100 = 500.