SOLUTION: A woman is plotting out a garden bed. she measures the diagonals of the bed and finds that one is 22 ft long and the other is 223 ft long. could it be a rectangle? Explain

SOLUTION: A woman is plotting out a garden bed. she measures the diagonals of the bed and finds that one is 22 ft long and the other is 223 ft long. could it be a rectangle? Explain

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Question 1074691: A woman is plotting out a garden bed. she measures the diagonals of the bed and finds that one is 22 ft long and the other is 223 ft long. could it be a rectangle? Explain
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
No -it is a parallelogram possibly, but it
can't be a rectangle, because both diagonals
of a rectangle are equal.
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