Question 1203548: While on the playground, Willis, Paula, and Ann each started at a water
fountain, walked 20 feet in different directions, and stopped. If several
other students do the same thing, which figure will the groups of students make?
A. circle
B. rectangle
C. square
D. parallelogram
Found 2 solutions by math_tutor2020, greenestamps:
Answer by math_tutor2020(3816)   (Show Source):
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Answer: circle
Reason: The students are the same distance away from the center which is the fountain. The radius of the circle is 20 feet. The diameter is 40 feet (because diameter = 2*radius).
Answer by greenestamps(13198)  (Show Source):
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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.
The set of all points a fixed distance from a given point is a circle.
ANSWER: circle
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.
But of the given answer choices, clearly circle is the best.
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