Given:
Alexis has a rectangular backyard that is 50 yards by 55 yards.
She wants to build a fence that stretches diagonally from one corner to the opposite corner.
To find:
The length of the fencing she needs.
Solution:
We have,
Length = 50 yards
Width = 55 yards
We know that, the diagonal of a rectangle is
On further simplification, we get
Therefore, the length of the required fencing is 74.3 yards.