Posted by Lauren on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:57pm.
Matt runs along two sides of a right angle triangle. If Ashley runs along the third side, this is the miniumum distance between Matt's initial and final points.
Her distance is, using the Pythagorean theorem,
(30^2 + 40^2)^0.5
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