SOLUTION: A football coach has his team run sprints diagonally across a football field. If the field is 120 yards long and 160 feet wide, what distance do they run? Write your answer in hund
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Question 258756: A football coach has his team run sprints diagonally across a football field. If the field is 120 yards long and 160 feet wide, what distance do they run? Write your answer in hundredths of a foot. Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A football coach has his team run sprints diagonally across a football field. If the field is 120 yards long and 160 feet wide, what distance do they run? Write your answer in hundredths of a foot.
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First, we need to convert yards to feet:
120 yards * 3 feet/yard = 360 feet
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Then, we apply Pythagorean theorem:
Let x = distance of run
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x^2 = 360^2 + 160^2
x^2 = 129600 + 25600
x^2 = 155200
x = 393.95 feet
