Question

Luis starts at one corner of a square field and walks 80 feet along one side to another corner of the field. He turns 90* and walks 60 feet, and then walks straight back to where he started. What is the area of the part of the field he walked around?

Answer 1

His path lays out a right triangle with base 80 ft and height 60 ft.

Area = 0.5*80*60