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Problem

Point B is due east of point A. Point C is due north of point B. The distance between points A and C is $10\sqrt 2$ , and $\angle BAC= 45^\circ$ . Point D is 20 meters due north of point C. The distance AD is between which two integers?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 30\ \text{and}\ 31 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 31\ \text{and}\ 32 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 32\ \text{and}\ 33 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 33\ \text{and}\ 34 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 34\ \text{and}\ 35$

Solution

$[asy] unitsize(4); pair A=(0,0); pair B=(0,10); pair C=(10,10); pair D=(30,10); draw(A--B); [/asy]$ If point B is due east of point A and point C is due north of point B, $\angle CBA$ is a right angle. And if $\angle BAC = 45^\circ$ , $\triangle CBA$ is a 45-45-90 triangle. Thus, the lengths of sides $CB$ , $BA$ , and $AC$ are in the ratio $1:1:\sqrt 2$ , and $CB$ is $10 \sqrt 2 \div \sqrt 2 = 10$ .

$\triangle DBA$ is clearly a right triangle with $C$ on the side $DB$ . $DC$ is 20, so $DB = DC + CB = 20 + 10 = 30$ .

By the Pythagorean Theorem, $DA = \sqrt {DB^2 + BA^2} = \sqrt {30^2 + 10 ^2} = \sqrt {1000}$ .

$31^2 = 961$ , and $32^2 = 1024$ . Thus, $\sqrt {1000}$ must be between $31$ and $32$ . The answer is $\boxed {B}$ .

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 pair A=(0,0);
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