SOLUTION: What is the area of a rectangle when the diagonal is 10 inches and the base is 6 inches?

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Question 424159: What is the area of a rectangle when the diagonal is 10 inches and the base is 6 inches?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi
What is the area of a rectangle where the diagonal = 10in and base = 6in
using the Pythagorean Theorem to find the height of this rectangle
h = = 8in
Area(rectangle) = b*h = 6in*8in = 48 in^2
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