SOLUTION: A Square has a diagonal of 7cm. What is the area?

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Question 397249: A Square has a diagonal of 7cm. What is the area?
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A Square has all sides same; let the side be
a diagonal
a diagonal divides a square into two right triangles, so we will use Pythagorean Theorem to find





.........we can round it to


the area will be:




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