Answer:
64.20m
Explanation:
As we can see from the image I have attached below, the route that the chipanzee makes forms a right triangle. In this case, the shortest distance is represented by x in the image, which is the hypotenuse. To find this value we use the Pythagorean theorem which is the following.
[tex]a^{2} +b^{2} = c^{2}[/tex]
where a and b are the length of the two sides and c is the length of the hypotenuse (x). Therefore, we can plug in the values of the image and solve for x
[tex]51^{2} +39^{2} =x^{2}[/tex]
2,601 + 1,521 = [tex]x^{2}[/tex]
4,122 = [tex]x^{2}[/tex] ... square root both sides
64.20 = x
Finally, we see that the shortest distance is 64.20m
