SOLUTION: A park is in the shape of a rectangle 8 miles long and 6 miles wide. How much shorter is your walk if you walk diagonally across the park than along two sides of it?

Question 953449: A park is in the shape of a rectangle 8 miles long and 6 miles wide. How much shorter is your walk if you walk diagonally across the park than along two sides of it?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A park is in the shape of a rectangle 8 miles long and 6 miles wide. How much shorter is your walk if you walk diagonally across the park than along two sides of it?
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Use Pythagoras to find the diagonal.
Then compare that to the sum of the 2 sides.
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