How do you figure in feet the radius from foul pole to foul pole on a baseball field that is 300 feet from home plate to the fence?
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It's a combination of the Pythagorean theorem and polar equation. Call the distance from the home plate to either of the fences 'x' and 'y'. Well, x^2 + y^2 = r^2 ('r' is the radius) and x = r * cosA ('A' is the angle measure) y = r * sinA Now, remember that this arc 'r' (in the unit circle diagram of polar coordinates) is exactly 1 radian, which is approx 57.296 degrees. Set up the problem carefully, set the distance to feet, and solve.
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