Pythagorean Word Problems

Front

The slide at the playground has a height of 6 feet. The base of the slide measured on the ground is 8 feet. What is the length of the slide?

Back

10 feet

Front

Ladder length needed to reach a 25-foot tall house when placed 10 feet away.

Back

27 feet

Front

The size of a television screen is measured by the length of the diagonal of the screen. What size is a television screen that is 3 feet tall and 6 feet wide?

Back

6.7

Front

Find h

Back

35.71

Front

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?

Back

10

Front

A rectangular field is 50 yards wide and 100 yards long. How far does Patrick walk diagonally across the field?

Back

111.8 yards

Front

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?

Back

60 feet

Front

Lisa drives her car 46 km south and then 13 km east. How far is she from her starting point?

Back

47.8 km

Front

An airplane flies 56 miles due north and then 33 miles due east. How many miles is the plane from its starting point?

Back

65 miles

Front

What is the length of a diagonal of a rectangular picture whose sides are 12 inches by 17 inches? Round to the nearest tenth of an inch.

Back

20.8