Question

westin street and hillsborough ave intersect. if westin street is 8 meters wide and Hillsboro ave is 15 meters wide, what is the distance between two opposite corners of the intersection

Answer 1

Given the information on the problem, we have the following diagram:

since we want the distance between the two opposite corners of the intersection, we have the following:

then, we can find the missing distance using the pythagorean theorem:

$\begin{gathered} x=\sqrt[]{(15)^2+(8)^2}=\sqrt[]{225+64}=\sqrt[]{289}=17 \\ \Rightarrow x=17m \end{gathered}$

therefore, the distance between the two opposite corners of the intersection is 17 m