Question 1117554
A baseball diamond is a square with sides 22.4m The pitchers mound is 16.8m from home plate on the line joining home plate and second base. How far is the pitchers mound from first base?
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The angle between the line to the mound and to 1st base is 45 degs.
--> 2 sides and the included angle.
Use the Cosine Law.