A football field has the shape of a rectangle with dimensions of 300 feet long and 160 feet wide. If a fan was to run diagonally from one end zone to the opposite end zone, how far would she run to the nearest foot? Enter only the number.

340

Explanation:

In order to find the length of the diagonal of a rectangle you need to cut the rectangle in diagonal then you have 2 right triangle:

We can take one right triangle to work with:

We can use Pythagorean’s theorem to find the hypotenuse of the right triangle (also the diagonal of the rectangle):

a^2 + b^2 = c^2
300^2 + 160^2 = c^2
90000 + 25600 = c^2
115600 = c^2
Sqrt 115600 = c
340 = c

Where c is the hypotenuse of the right triangle and also the diagonal of the rectangle

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