"Rather than walk all the way around a 3 km by 5 km rectangular
field, you instead cut across it from
corner to corner."
How much shorter was the trip than
if you had to walk along the sides?
Explain your thinking.

5.8com shorter

Step-by-step explanation:

I used the pythagoremy theorem to find the missing side length.

step-by-step explanation:

there are 36 inches in a yard

25 : 36 = 0.69 yards (you can round to 0.70)

answer: the distance

step-by-step explanation:

to calculate the distance d of a line segment with endpoints (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) use the formula d (x2 x1)2 (y2 y1)2. to calculate the midpoint of a line segment with endpoints (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) use the formula