SOLUTION: The length of a diagonal of a square is given. Find the length of a side of the square. Find the following answers: 1. Square root of 2 2. 2 3. 20K

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Question 424030: The length of a diagonal of a square is given. Find the length of a side of the square. Find the following answers:
1. Square root of 2
2. 2
3. 20K

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If is the side of a square, and is
the diagonal, then




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(1)

and

and

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(2)



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(3)


Multiply top and bottom by


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