Solve the mystery of the wandering engineer in this edition of Riddle Me This.
You walk 5 miles north, turn east and walk 7 miles. Then you turn south and walk 13 miles. You turn west and walk another 13 miles. Turning north, you walk 8 miles before turning east and walking 6 miles. How many miles away from where you started are you?
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You have returned to your starting position. Treat east and north as positive and west and south as negative and sum the x & y movements and you get deltaX = (5-13+8) = 0 and deltaY = (7-13+6+) = 0