SOLUTION: A rectangular park is 600 meters long and 300 meters wide. You walk diagonally across the park from corner to corner. How far did you walk,to the nearest meter? I dont know what i

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Question 834856: A rectangular park is 600 meters long and 300 meters wide. You walk diagonally across the park from corner to corner. How far did you walk,to the nearest meter? I dont know what i am supposed to do. Do I cut the two numbers in half or keep them the same and do leg squared + leg squared = hyptenuse
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A rectangular park is 600 meters long and 300 meters wide.
You walk diagonally across the park from corner to corner.
How far did you walk, to the nearest meter?
:
A pythag problem, a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where
a = 600
b = 300
Find c
c =sqrt%28600%5E2%2B300%5E2%29
c = 679 meters