The Rectangles of a Tennis Court - Oct. 24-28, 1994 Boutros and Bernice are starting to study rectangles in school. They had to come up with a problem to share with another group in their class. They both like to play sports, so they came up with the following question: You want to lay out a tennis court. It's basically a rectangle. You know the dimensions but you forgot your surveyor's transit which you would use to determine the right angles at the corners. All you have is a ruled tape to measure distances and a lot of string. How do you lay out the rectangle? Extra: When else might you use the answers to this problem? What other sorts of applications does this have? [Thanks to Michael Thwaites for the basis of this problem.] Correct solutions to the problem were submitted by: Matthew Phillips, Charlotte Country Day School Matt Sowa, Shaler Area High School Heather Dankmyer, Shaler Area High School Eric Wahl, Masterman Susan Quan, Masterman Taryn H-Cabibi and Laura Parkinson, Concord High School Becca Schuler, Shaler Area High School Matt Schellhaas, Shaler Area High School Luke Diamond, Jacob Remes, and Jonas Ljung, Georgetown Day School Dana, Shaler Area High School Susan Garges, Mount St. Joseph Academy Kim Biederman, Mount St. Joseph Academy Jennifer Abrahamsen, Fairfield HS Next problem || Previous problem || Table of Contents || Forum Home Page