Question

A soccer field is a rectangle 90 meters wide and 120 meters long. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the other corner diagonally across. What is this distance?

Answer 1

150

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 90. The need to know the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle, so we can use the pythagorean theorem.

90^2 + 120^2 = c^2

c=150