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document.write( "A football field is 100 yd long from goal line to goal line and 160 ft wide. If a player ran diagonally across the field from one goal line to the other, than how far did he run<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1 yard = 3 feet<BR>\n" );
document.write( "100 yards = 300 feet (multiply both sides by 3)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We have a right triangle with side lengths a = 300 ft, b = 160 ft, and an unknown hypotenuse c. Use the pythagorean theorem to find c.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The player ran exactly 340 feet. This is equivalent to 340/3 = 113.333 yards approximately. To convert from feet to yards, you divide by 3.\r<BR>\n" );
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