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A baseball diamond is a square (don’t be fooled that it is usually shown rotated by 45°). Each side of the square is 90 feet long (to two significant figures). How far must a fielder throw the ball from
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A baseball diamond is a square (don’t be fooled that it is usually shown rotated by 45°). Each side of the square is 90 feet long (to two significant figures). How far must a fielder throw the ball from second base to home plate?

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A line from second to home creates a right triangle with 45 degree angles.

This makes the diagonal line the side length of the square multiplied by the sqrt(2)

Second to home = 90sqrt(2) = 127.279 feet ( round answer as needed)

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