Given:
Length of the truck = 80 cm
Width of the truck = 60 cm
To find:
The longest walking stick that can be placed in the bottom of a truck.
Solution:
The longest walking stick that can be placed in the bottom of a truck is the diagonal of the truck.
We know that, the diagonal of a rectangle is:
[tex]d=\sqrt{l^2+w^2}[/tex]
Where, l is the length and w is the width.
Putting [tex]l=80[/tex] and [tex]w=60[/tex], we get
[tex]d=\sqrt{(80)^2+(60)^2}[/tex]
[tex]d=\sqrt{6400+3600}[/tex]
[tex]d=\sqrt{10000}[/tex]
[tex]d=100[/tex]
Therefore, the length of the longest walking stick that can be placed in the bottom of a truck is 100 cm.
