SOLUTION: The runners train on a square field. The area of the field is 240 square feet. What is the distance diagonally across the field from one corner to the other?

Question 1021557: The runners train on a square field. The area of the field is 240 square feet. What is the distance diagonally across the field from one corner to the other?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the area of the square field is 240 square feet, then one side is the square root of 240, or

Now the diagonal of a square is the side times sqrt(2)...so that would be

Now simplify...

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