30√74 ft or 258.070 ft rounded to three decimal places.
Step-by-step explanation:
To find the length of a diagonal, add the square of the width and the square of the length together and find the square root of the sum.
d = √210² + 150²
d = √44100 + 22500
d = √66600
d = 258.069758 ft (This is the answer I got in six decimal places. Rounding it to three, as it says in the question, would be 258.07 ft, as 7 is greater than 5 (the third digit was 9 by the way).)
An exact answer to that, in radical form, is 30√74 ft.
First draw a rectangle and draw a diagonal line in the middle. The line makes two triangles, and the line itself is the hypotenuse. So, to find hypotenuse, the formula is:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
The variable c defines the hypotenuse. Therefore:
a = 150
b = 210
Let's solve:
150^2 + 210^2 = c^2
22500 + 44100 = c^2
66600 = c^2
Therefore, in conclusion, the result we are getting is 66600 ft.
