Third
90 feet
First
90 feet
Home
The area of a baseball field bounded by home plate, first base, second base, and third base is a square. If a player at rst base throws the ball to
a player at third base, what is the distance the player has to throw?
16,200 feet
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V10 feet
V16,200 feet
180 feet
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Answer:

  √16,200 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The distance from first to third is the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of 90 feet. The Pythagorean theorem tells you that distance (d) is ...

  d² = 90² +90² = 8100 +8100 = 16,200

  d = √16,200 . . . . feet