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A walkway forms one diagonal of a square playground. The walkway is 14 m long. How long is a side of the playground?

User Shauntae
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Answer: The side of the playground is around 10 meters long

Explanation:

use the diagonal as the hypotenuse of a right triangle, where the sides of the square form the legs of said triangle.

Usually


a^(2) +b^(2) =c^(2)

since we know a and b are the same length (sides of a square are congruent) we would have


a^(2) +a^(2) =c^(2) \\2a^(2) =c^(2)

We know that c is 14 so


2a^(2) =14^(2) \\2a^(2) =196\\a^(2) =98\\a=√(98) \\a= 9.999

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