Question

Sunita and her friend were standing at opposite corners of rectangular park of size 120 m × 50 m. For meeting her friend Sunita followed the shortest route. Find the distance covered by Sunita in doing so.

Answer 1

Diagonal is the shortest distance of 130 mts

Answer 2

In a triangle, the sum of two sides is always greater than the third side.
Here , both are sitting in the opposite corner of the rectangle, means corner of the triangle ,if rectangle is cut along the diagonal.
so, diagonal is the shortest and distance = √((120)² +(50)²) = 130 m