Question

22. Anthony is practicino Licking held goals for shoh school football team He knows that the held goal is 10 feet off the groundPart It he standa 45 feet from the field goal, how far must he kick the ball in order to make the extra point?Part 1 Explain how you arrived at your conclusion

Answer 1

Anthony's position and the field goal form a right triangle, where how far he must kick the ball has the hypotenuse length.

Using the Pythagora's Theorem, we have the following equation

$10^2+45^2=h^2$

Solving for h, we have

$\begin{gathered} 10^2+45^2=h^2 \\ 100+2025=h^2 \\ 2125=h^2 \\ h=\sqrt[]{2125} \\ h=46.0977222865\ldots \end{gathered}$

And this is how far he must kick.