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A farmer is tilling his rectangular field the length of the field is 48 m and the distance between opposite corners is 73 m how wide is the farmers field

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JacobtheGreat

What you have here is a triangle. So we need to use Pythagorean Theorem:
\(48^2+w^2=73^2 \\ 2304+w^2=5329 \\ w^2=3025 \\ w=55\)
His field is 55 meters wide.

\(c^2=a^2+b^2 73^2=48^2+b^2 5329=2304+b^2 3025=b^2 55=b\)

The field can be divided into a triangle with 73 as the hypotenuse and 48 as a leg. The other side can be solved using the Pythagorean Theorem.

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