document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1203548>Question 1203548</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> While on the playground, Willis, Paula, and Ann each started at a water <BR>\n" );
document.write( "fountain, walked 20 feet in different directions, and stopped.  If several<BR>\n" );
document.write( "other students do the same thing, which figure will the groups of students make?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A. circle<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B. rectangle<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C. square<BR>\n" );
document.write( "D. parallelogram\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The set of all students who have done that can be viewed as the set of all points a fixed distance from a given point, the fountain.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "The set of all points a fixed distance from a given point is a circle.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "ANSWER: circle<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Note that a circle consists of an infinite number of points, and there can't be an infinite number of students that are each 20 feet from the fountain, so the students don't actually form a circle.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "But of the given answer choices, clearly circle is the best.<br><BR>\n" );
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