Kendra is swimming in a rectangular swimming pool that is 25 feet wide by 60 feet long. if she swims diagonally across the pool, about how many feet does kendra swim? a.) 13 b.) 55 c.) 65 d.) 85

With rectangles, if you cut a diagonal through them you create right triangles. With this info, we can use the pythagorean theorem to solve for the diagonal, or the hypotenuse in this case. The equation is . Our equation can be solved as such:

In short, if Kendra swims diagonally, she swims 65 ft, or the third option.

question: how many people can she serve?

answer: she can serve 16.66666667 people. so she can only give 16 people a complete serving.

question: does she have enough ice cream for her guests?

answer: no. explanation: she only has enough for 16 people to have a full serving. however, she can give a 17th person a partial serving.