SOLUTION: A diagonal of a square parking lot is 70 meters. Find, to the nearest meter, the length of a side of the lot.
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Question 360297: A diagonal of a square parking lot is 70 meters. Find, to the nearest meter, the length of a side of the lot.
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve this, whereby
Since we know that the square has 4 equal sides, we can then set up this equation, using x as our unknown quantity for a side of the square:
or
Since we are talking about distances and measures, we can safely eliminate the negative solution.
Thus, the length of a side of the parking lot to the nearest meter is 49 meters.
I hope this helps!
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