SOLUTION: a rectangular park is 20 miles long and 10 meters wide, How long is the route diagonally across the park.

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Question 514026: a rectangular park is 20 miles long and 10 meters wide, How long is the route diagonally across the park.
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The diagonal of a rectangle is the hypotenuse of a right triangle formed by two adjacent sides and the diagonal. Use Pythagoras.

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