Each morning Henry takes the subway from Town Center to Maple Station. As the map shows below Maple Station is 3 miles west and 5 miles north of Town Center. Find the total distance Henry travels from Town Center to Maple Station within 2 decimal places.

So you know that maple stations is 3 miles west and 5 miles north of town center and Henry takes the subway from town center to maple station. The route that he travels is the hypotenuse and you can use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of that line. The pythagorean theorem is a^2+b^2=c^2, where a and b are the legs and c is the hypotenuse

You would get 3^2+5^2=c^2

9+25=c^2

34=c^2

The value of c is approximately 5.83