SOLUTION: The infield of a baseball diamond is a square. Barry measures the distance from home plate to second base and finds that it is about 38.7 meters. Find the approximate distance f

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Question 1192185: The infield of a baseball diamond is a square.
Barry measures the distance from home plate to
second base and finds that it is about 38.7 meters.
Find the approximate distance from home plate to first base.

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:
Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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Simply round the given distance.

For the rules of rounding, see this Internet source
https://www.factmonster.com/math-science/mathematics/rounding-numbers-rules-examples-for-fractions-sums



Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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The other tutor didn't read the problem correctly; or she doesn't know baseball....

The 38.7 meters is the diagonal of a square; the distance from home plate to first base is a side of the square. The length of the side of the square is the length of the diagonal, divided by the square root of 2.

38.7%2Fsqrt%282%29 = 27.4 meters, to one decimal place

Note the answer is reasonable, because 27.4 meters is 89.9 feet; and the distance from home plate to first base is 90 feet.