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A high school softball diamond is a square. Thedistance from base to base is 60ft. To the nearest foot,how far does the catcher throw the ball from home plateto second base?Hypotenuses60 ftd✓Submit

A high school softball diamond is a square. Thedistance from base to base is 60ft-example-1
User Jingwei
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Solution

For this case we can do the following:


d=\sqrt[]{60^2+60^2}=84.85ft

And the reason is because we use the Pythagoras theorem to solve for d

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