A designer of a sports field wants to find the length of the diagonal of a square lot that is 240 feet on each side Explain how she can calculate this distance rather than measure it.

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Pythagorean Theorem applies to right triangles: a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where c is the hypotenuse and a and b are the sides.

For the square lot, the diagonal is the hypotenuse of the triangle, and each side is equal to 240ft.

240^2 + 240^2 = c^2
c = ?
This is a job for the Pythagorean Theorem: a^2 + b^2 = c^2

a = 240
b = 240
c = hyptoneuse (diagnonal of the square)

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