Question

A baseball diamond is a square that is 90 feet on each side. A player threw the ball from 2nd base to home. How far did the ball travel? Round to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

127.3 ft

Explanation:

A square has side 90 ft.

We need the length of the diagonal of the square.

Use two adjacent sides of the square as legs of right triangle.

We need to find the length of the hypotenuse.

a² + b² = c²

90² + 90² = c²

c² = 16,200

c = 127.27922...

Answer: 127.3 ft