A rectangular park is 6 miles long and 3 miles wide. How long is a pedestrian route that runs diagonally across the park?
Mathematics · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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A rectangular park is 6 miles long and 3 miles wide. How long is a pedestrian route that runs diagonally across the park?
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the "diagonal" is the hypotenuse so from Pythagorean we have
d^2 = 6^2 + 3^2
d^2 = 36 + 9
d^2 = 45
d = sqrt(45)
d= 6.708 miles
d = 6.71 miles (answer)