SOLUTION: If there is a box and the area is 16 and someone walks diagnaly from one corner to the next one how far did he walk

Question 1078099: If there is a box and the area is 16 and someone walks diagnaly from one corner to the next one how far did he walk
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, addingup:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Depends on the box.
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If the box is 4 by 4, it's 4sqrt(2).
If the box is 1 by 16, it's sqrt(257).
If the box is 0.01 by 1600, it's sqrt(2560000 + 0.0001)
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If the box is a hexagon, that's a whole nother deal.

Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So you may be in a box, but you are walking on a square. The area of the square is 16. Since the area is S^2, how do you "undo" the square? The square of a number is found by multiplying the number times itself. How about with the square root? the square root "un-do" the square.
What number times itself equals 16? 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4
Once you have found that number, that is how far they walked from one corner to the next one.
Now, if you meant from one corner to the OPPOSITE corner it would be a different calculation. If this is the case, restate the problem and re-post.

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