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Second Base A baseball field is in the shape of a square. The distance between each pair of bases along the edge of the square is 90 feet. What is the distance between home plate and second base? 2 feet Third Base First Base 90 ft Home Plate and second base?what the answer it a number

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Zcoy, this is the solution:

As we can see the side of the square measures 90 feet, therefore:

The distance from second base to home is a diagonal of the square and the distance is:

90 √2 feet

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