SOLUTION: A rectangular pool is 6 meters wide and 8 meters long. If you swim diagonally across the pool, how many meters would you be swimming?
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Question 815173: A rectangular pool is 6 meters wide and 8 meters long. If you swim diagonally across the pool, how many meters would you be swimming?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A rectangular pool is 6 meters wide and 8 meters long. If you swim diagonally across the pool, how many meters would you be swimming?
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It's a right triangle.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem.
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