Question

2. The Lamberti family is building a rectangular deck that measures 30 feet by 22 feet. They need to run an electric line across the diagonal, underneath the deck. How long is the diagonal of the deck, to the nearest foot?

Answer 1

37 ft

Explanation:

The Pythagorean theorem tells you the length of the diagonal is the square root of the sum of the squares of the side lengths:

diagonal = √(30^2 +22^2) = √1384 ≈ 37 . . . . feet