Question

Solve: Tom is building a barn 36 feet wide and 60 feet long. How many feet long will the diagonal be across the footer if the footer is square?

Answer 1

Solution

For this case we can do the following:

Then we can use the Pythagoras theorem and we can solve for d and we got:

$d=\sqrt[]{60^2+36^2}=\sqrt[]{4896}=69.97$

Then the answer would be:

69.97 ft