SOLUTION: the playing surface of a soccer field is 300 ft long and 160 ft wide. if a player runs from one corner of the field to the opposite corner, how many ft does he run?
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Question 775962: the playing surface of a soccer field is 300 ft long and 160 ft wide. if a player runs from one corner of the field to the opposite corner, how many ft does he run? Answer by tanjo3(60) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! He runs along the diagonal of the rectangle made by the soccer field. This, along with two sides, creates a right triangle. We can use the Pythagorean theorem.
where c is the length of the diagonal (hypotenuse).
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