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

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Aryanna Raymond

Mathematics

23 June, 03:14

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

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Cristopher · Answer 1

123.7 meters

Step-by-step 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