SOLUTION: How do you find the area of a rectangle if only the measurements of the diagonal is given to you without the width or length?

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Question 398029: How do you find the area of a rectangle if only the measurements of the diagonal is given to you without the width or length?
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


You can't. All you can say is that the area is in the range:



where is the measure of the diagonal. The maximum area is obtained when the rectangle is a square with side measure

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