The park around which the jogger jogged is rectangular in shape. The Short cut that the jogger jogged through to her car is the diagonal of the rectangle. The diagonal becomes the hypotenuse of the rectangle. The sides of the field becomes the opposite side and adjacent side of the triangle. To determine the length of the diagonal, we would apply Pythagoras theorem. It is expressed as
Given that the team starts with a score of 0, after skipping 8 turns they would have 8 points deducted and thus end up with a score of -8. Now if they guess 6 answers correctly this would add 6 points to their score and so they would end up with -8 + 6 = -2 points.
