SOLUTION: A community wants to build a baseball diamond. The available space is limited so the distance from the home plate to second base will be 100 feet. What will be the distance x betwe
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Question 976293: A community wants to build a baseball diamond. The available space is limited so the distance from the home plate to second base will be 100 feet. What will be the distance x between bases to the nearest foot?
Answer by FrankM(1040) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Home to second base is opposite corners of a square.
If the diagonal of the square is 100, the side is 100/(sqr(2)) = 70.7
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