Question

A square park has a diagonal walkway from one corner to another. If the walkway is about 38 yards long, what is the approximate length of each side of the park?

Answer 1

\[19*\sqrt{2}\]

Answer 2

Let x = length of side of square park. The diagonal would be the \[\sqrt{x ^{2}+x ^{2}}=\sqrt{2x ^{2}}\]

Answer 3

my answer is correct anyway

Answer 4

\[\sqrt{2x ^{2}}=38\]Square both sides of the equation getting:
\[2x ^{2}=38^{2}=1444\]\[x ^{2}=722\]\[x=\sqrt{722}\]

Answer 5

can i sove it a(squared) + b(squared)= c(squared) ??

Answer 6

Yes and since it is square, the sides are all equal, then you do not need to have but one unknown.

Answer 7

As you can determine from my first post, the two sides are squared, and summed and the square root taken. You must take the square root in order to obtain c otherwise you would have c^2

Answer 8

My answer was correct and much simpler

Answer 9

\[\sqrt{722}=\sqrt{361}\sqrt{2}=19\sqrt{2}\]

Answer 10

Simplifying my results, I was attempting to show the steps that were taken to obtain the simple answer.

Answer 11

A cryptic answer does not necessarily provide the kind of help a serious student may require.

Answer 12

summerflower did you follow with understanding?

Answer 13

not really... im confused on how you got 772 and square root all that. sorry im just stuck on the pythagorean theorem stuff

Answer 14

OK I will draw (show and tell)