SOLUTION: A city park InThe shape of a rectangle has a Sidewalk around it perimeter. The park dimension are 165ft and 52ft Jason is in rush to get home to he decides to take a diagonal short

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Question 1151853: A city park InThe shape of a rectangle has a Sidewalk around it perimeter. The park dimension are 165ft and 52ft Jason is in rush to get home to he decides to take a diagonal shortcut across the rectangular city park How much distance dose he save by doing this instead of walking on the sidewalk
Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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HINT 

    Your first step is to find the length of the diagonal.


    For it, use the Pythagorean theorem.


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