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Square A B C D is shown. Each side is 30 yards long. A diagonal is drawn from point D to point B to form 2 triangles.
Jules owns a square plot of land that measures 30 yards on each side. He plans to divide the land in half by building a fence, as shown by the dotted line below. How many yards of fencing will Jules need?

15 yd
30 yd
30 StartRoot 3 EndRoot yd
30 StartRoot 3 EndRoot yd

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The fence is the diagonal of the square. By the Pythagorean theorem its length is

sqrt(30^2 + 30^2) = sqrt(900 + 900) = sqrt(1800) = 30√2.

So Jules needs 30√2 yards of fencing (≈ 42.43 yd).