SOLUTION: If it takes a football player 8 seconds to run the width and 15 seconds to run the lenght of the pitch. How long does it take to run from one corner to adjacent or opposite corner

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Question 887740: If it takes a football player 8 seconds to run the width and 15 seconds to run the lenght of the pitch.
How long does it take to run from one corner to adjacent or opposite corner?
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==>The first step is to illustrate the question on your mind, by sketching a football field in your mind, it is RECTANGULAR right.
==>Second step is that for a shape which is rectangle it most posses a LENGHT=HEIGHT {the longest side} and a BREATH=WIDTH {the shortest side} right.
==>Third step is to divide rectangle into two from Two ALTERNATE ANGELS,
Now we have a RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE with a LENGHT, BREATH AND HYPOTENUSE.
==>Fourth step is to name each angle ==>Fifth step is to assign the numerical value to the such that AB=8s {as it take 8 seconds for the player to cover the (width analogous to Breath) of the field}, BC=15s, and AC=x {unknown time in seconds}
==>Sixth step is for us to remember our PYTHAGORA's Theorem which says that IN A RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE THE SQUARE OF THE LENGHTH OF THE HYPOTENUSE EQUALS THE RUN OF THE SQUARES OF THE OTHER TWO SIDES that is
H^2=L^2 B^2.
==>Seventh step is to apply this formula in our Question which will give
AC^2=AB^2 BC^2 that is
x^2=8^2 15^2.
==>For the last step is to solve the equation by finding our x
x = sqrt{8^2 15^2}, henceforth we could solve our question effortlessly by finding the square of 8 and 15 which is 64 and 225 respectively to give
x = sqrt{64 225} then by performing our addition we have 64 225 = 289 which we slot in our working to have
x = sqrt{289} and we find the square root of 289 which is 17 we have our
x = 17 therefore our
AC = 17s
==>In Conclusion for the Player to run from one corner to the other {adjacent or opposite} corner it is Seventeen seconds.

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