Question

Haley's swimming pool is 30 yards by 16 yards. She swam from one corner of the pool

opposite corner. How far did Haley swim?
yards

Answer 1

34

Explanation:

We can use the Pythagorean Theorem because she swam the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of 30 and 16. This means she swam 34 yards.

Note that this is an 8-15-17 triangle but dilated by a scale factor of 2