a rectangular park is 260 m by 480 m. Danny usually trains by running 5 circuits around the edge of the park. After heavy rain, two adjacent sides are too muddy to run along, so he runs a triangular path along the other two sides and the diagonal. Danny does 5 circuits of this path for training. Show that danny runs about 970 metres less than his usual training session.
+33654 Usual training distance = 5*2*(260 + 480) m
Diagonal distance = √(2602 + 4802) m
Heavy rain training distance = 5*(260 + 480 + √(2602 + 4802)) m
Difference between these:
5×2×(260+480)−5×(260+480+√2602+4802)=970.5311872087638744
difference = 971 m to nearest metre
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