You walk 44 steps north. you turn and then walk 33 steps east. every step is the same length. what is the shortest distance from where you started to where you ended?

ANSWER: 29.10326442 ft or about 29 ft. 

1. Because the steps are the same length, and you are walking in straight lines, we can assume that the shortest distance is a diagonal in the northeast direction 

2. The diagonal, along with the north and east walking paths for a 90 degree triangle, we can use pythagorean theorem to solve this (a^2+b^2=C^2)

2. Substitute 44 and 33 for a and b and solve. You get C^2=847. Take the square root of that and you get 29.1

The goal of solving two-step equations is to isolate the variable (get it by itself) and solve for the value using the following steps:

1. Add or subtract the constant term from both sides of the equation.

2. Multiply or divide the coefficient from both sides of the equation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Solving equations means using inverse (opposite) operations.  

subtraction - addition

multiplication - division

In order to get the variable by itself, you need to first get rid of the constant (the number by itself) by adding or subtracting from both sides of the equal sign. Then, you multiply or divide by the coefficient of the variable to solve for the variable.  

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