Question

A soccer field is a rectangle 30 meters wide and 120 meters long.The coach asks players to run from one corner to the corner diagonally across. What is the distance to the nearest tenth of a mile

Answer 1

123.7 meters

Explanation:

If you draw a diagram, this will be a rectangle and the line across cuts it into a right triangle, with a base of 120 and a height of 30. The need to know the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle, so we can use the pythagorean theorem.

30^2 + 120^2 = c^2

c=123.7