Posted by tiffaney on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 5:25pm.
Assuming you are not near the poles, you can calculate the distances by the Pythagoras theorem.
North and east are perpendicular to each other, and the hypothenuse sought is 10 km, with one leg being 8 km. What is the length of the other leg, x, if according to Pythagoras,
10^sup2; = 8² + x²
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