Question

A high school softball diamond is a square. Thedistance from base to base is 60ft. To the nearest foot,how far does the catcher throw the ball from home plateto second base?Hypotenuses60 ftd✓Submit

Answer 1

For this case we can do the following:

`d=\sqrt[]{60^2+60^2}=84.85ft`

And the reason is because we use the Pythagoras theorem to solve for d