SOLUTION: 1.a rectangle is 7 cm wide, and the length of each diagonal is 25 cm. Find the length of the rectangle and its area.

Question 763998: 1.a rectangle is 7 cm wide, and the length of each diagonal is 25 cm. Find the length of the rectangle and its area.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
RECTANGLE ------- a side and the diagonal are part of a right triangle and the other side length is the other leg of the triangle. Letting s = that other side length,

, which is the length of the rectangle.

A little computation on s shows

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