Starting from the same point in straight direction, one car travels north; the other travels east.When the car traveling north had gone 24 miles, the distance between the cars was four miles more than three times the distance traveled by the car heading east.What is the distance between the cars at that time ?

• 25 miles.
  
  If x is the distance traveled by the car heading east, then
  (3x+4)^2 = x^2 +(24)^2
  solving it, we get
  x= 7 miles
  3x+4 = 25 miles.
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