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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Marie's Blog Question

The question I was given for 2.4 was #21:

"A baseball diamond is a square area of about 750 m². What is the distance from first base to second base? Give your answer to the nearest tenth of a metre."






I knew that the distance between first base to second base is also equal to the side length of the baseball diamond. Since 750 m² is the area, all I needed to do was find the square root of 750m²















For the answer, I got 27.3861279 m.

I had to round it to the nearest tenth, and since .08 is greater than .05, I changed 27.3 to 27.4 m.

The distance from first base to second base is 27.4 m.

4 comments:

  1. Good job Marie! I really liked your post! I thought your explanations were really easy to follow! But you should've made your problem picture bigger. I thought it was a good idea including how you rounded. Good job!

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  2. Good job Marie. Your post was very well done. Your work was well organized and easy to understand. I agree, try making your question bigger or typing it out instead. Try adding a link next time to help people out with problem solving. Keep it up!

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  3. Great job on your post Marie! You explained things well. I liked how your post was easy to understand and it was very neat. Although, you should have made your question bigger. Keep up the good work!

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  4. Nice post Marie! Your explanations were short and sweet. I like how you changed the colour of words and had a simple sentence. I also agree that you should've tried to make your picture bigger but other than that, good job!

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