City B is 8 miles east of City A. City C is 6 miles north of city B. C

I sketched it out on paper and if anyone knows how to upload those fancy graphs I see other people doing that would be appreciated. Again, here I am working on actual problem solving mechanics to avoid silly mistakes, so any advice on that would be appreciated.


As I sketched it out, I realized this will create a right triangle. The eastern directions will serve as the base and the northern directions will serve as the height since they are parallel.

B=8+16=24
H=6+12=18.

-Now, squaring those two is sort of hairy, so I checked if this is a 3-4-5 triplet and yes 18/24=3/4 with the common divisor of 6.
-So the hypotenuse which is the length of A to E is 30, answer D.

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