Question

Mr. Shaw is building a walk away from the corner of his house out to his vegetable garden in the corner of the yard. The dimensions of the yard and the garden are shown. What is the length of the walkway, w, to the nearest foot?

A 24 foot
B 34 foot
C 46 foot
D 58 foot
Ummi chose C as the correct answer. How might she had gotten that answer?

Answer 1

34 Foot

Explanation:

You're basically just doing the pythagorean theory: a^2+b^2=c^2

You just are not directly being given a or b and instead you have to find them which you do by subtracting how big the garden is from the total length: 50-20=30(a) 30-14=16(b). After that you just do the normal theory getting 30^2+16^2=c^2 which leads to 900+256=c^2 then 1156=c^2 so you take the square root of both sides in order to turn c^2 into plain c or the length of the walk way which will get you 34 feet.