Quarter 1 Project - Pythagorean Theorem Investigation 1
It is Monday moming and you and your partner have been selected by the local police force to assist on a case
while the police force is short staffed due to the flu. A janitor at the local art museum arrived to work this
morning only to discover the door was unlocked, valuable artifacts were missing, and the curator is nowhere
to be seen and cannot be reached.
This is the infomation you are given:
The curator is not at the museum or at home, and hasn't been seen or heard from since Friday.
The curator walks to and from work every day (see map), stopping to get coffee every moming at the
Coffee House, and stopping for dinner every night at the Cafe.
Every day, the curator has lunch at the Deli.
The curator's keys are also missing.
1.
1.
How many blocks did he walk from his house, to the coffee shop, and
then to the museum?
2.
If the curator walked directly from home to the coffee shop, then to the 2.
museum, and the police want to search the area enclosed by his path,
what would the area of that triangle be? Remember, each block is 500 feet.