The area of a baseball field bounded by home plate, first base, second base, and third base is a square. If a player at first base throws the ball to a player at third base, what is the distance the player has to throw? 90 feet is first base 90 feet at third base

ta side from one base to next has  length of x. so we know each side has length x and  the shape they make is a square. This means we are only searching for the diagonal of a square. remember that a diagonal forms and isoscoles right triangle with the 2 sides being equal and the diagonal as the hypotenuse. Using  pythagoream theorem we can say

a^2 + b^2 = c^2 all side lengths are x so we can put x in for a and b  to get

x^2 + x^2 = c^2

2x^2 = c^2

c = x * squareroot(2)

so if the length between bases is 90 ft

c = 90 ft * squareroot(2)

c = 127.28 ft

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