A farmer is tilling his rectangular field the length of the field is 48 m and the distance between opposite corners is 73 m how wide is the farmers field
What you have here is a triangle. So we need to use Pythagorean Theorem: [tex]48^2+w^2=73^2 \\ 2304+w^2=5329 \\ w^2=3025 \\ w=55 [/tex] His field is 55 meters wide.