What is the distance from home plate to second base?

Question

First to home 90 ft

First to second 90 ft

 

Answer 1

It's a right triangle, where the two legs (a and b) are the 1st baseline and 2nd baseline and the hypotenuse (c) is the distance from home to 2nd base.  Applying the Pythagorean Theorem:

 

a² + b² = c²

90² + 90² = c²

 

Solve for c.