A new pipeline is being created to shorten the distance it has to travel to get from point A to point B. The original pipeline ran at a 90 angle from point A to point B and was 20 miles on one side and 15 miles on the other. The new pipeline will go straight from A to B. How much shorter will the new pipeline be?
10
25
175
625
2. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
You need a ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed 10 feet away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be?
25 feet
26 feet
27 feet
28 feet
3. Multiple Choice
15 minutes
1 pt
A rectangular field is 50 yards wide and 100 yards long. Patrick walks diagonally across the field. How far does he walk?
111.8 yards
115 yards
127.3 yards
119 yards
4. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
Jane and Miguel are siblings. They go to different schools. Jane walks 6 blocks east from home. Miguel walks 8 blocks north. How many blocks apart would the two schools be if you could walk straight from one school to the other?
14
10
5.3
2
5. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
Madison is on the top of an 80 foot building. She is creating a zipline course to the ground with 100 feet of cable. How far from the base of the building will she need to anchor the cable to make the zipline cable tight?
60 feet
20 feet
180 feet
6. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
To get from one side of the pond to the other you must walk 34 meters south and 41 meters east. To the nearest meter, how many less meters would it take if it were possible to go directly across the pond.
53
22
75
9
7. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
In a computer catalog, a computer is listed as being 19 inches. This distance is the diagonal distance across the screen. If the screen measures 10 inches in height, what is the actual width of the screen to the nearest inch?
16
21
17
18
8. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
The older floppy diskettes measured 5 and 1/4 inches on each side. What was the diagonal length of the diskette to the nearest tenth of an inch?
7.4
7.1
7
7.5
9. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
Two joggers run 8 miles north and then 5 miles west. What is the shortest distance back to their starting point to the nearest tenth of a mile?
13
9.4
6.2
9
10. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
Madison is on the top of an 80 foot building. She is creating a zipline course to the ground with 100 feet of cable. How far from the base of the building will she need to anchor the cable to make the zipline cable tight?
60 feet
20 feet
180 feet
11. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
A soccer field is a rectangle 90 meters wide and 120 meters long. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the corner diagonally across. What is this distance?
210 m
180 m
150 m
79 m
12. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
How far from the base of the house do you need to place a 15-foot ladder so that it exactly reaches the top of a 12- foot tall wall?
3 feet
6 feet
9 feet
12 feet
13. Multiple Choice
5 minutes
1 pt
Casey travels from her house directly west to the bank 4 miles and then directly north from the bank to the mall 3 miles. She then travels home on the road connecting the mall and her house. What is her total distance traveled?
17 miles
32 miles
9 miles
12 miles
14. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
John leaves school to go home. He walks 6 blocks North and then 8 blocks west. How far is John from the school?
14 blocks
12 blocks
10 blocks
8.5 blocks
15. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
The Pythagorean Theorem ONLY works on which triangle?