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"Rather than walk all the way
around a 3 km by 5 km rectangular
field, you instead cut across it from
corner to corner."
How much shorter was the trip than
if you had to walk along the sides?
Explain your thinking.

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deolivg002

Answer:

5.8com shorter

Step-by-step explanation:

I used the pythagoremy theorem to find the missing side length.

[tex]a^{2} +b^{2} = c^{2}\\5^{2} +3^{2} = c^{2}\\25+9= c^{2}\\34=c^{2} \\\sqrt{34} = {c}^{2}\\5.8cm[/tex]

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