Mrs. Clarkson designed a rectangular garden with a length of 15 meters and a width of 8 meters she plans to build a walkway through the garden from one corner to the next What measure is closest to the length of the diagonal walkway A. 8 meters B. 11 meters C. 17 meters D. 23 meters

The Pythagorean Theorem states that if you have two legs of a triangle a and b, the formula for finding the hypotenuse, c, is a^2 + b^2 = c^2.

The two legs, the length and the width, make a triangle with the diagonal of the rectangle. Therefore:

(15m) ^2 + (8m) ^2 = c^2

225 m^2 + 64 m^2 = c^2

289 m^2 = c^2

c = 17 m