SOLUTION: A student designed a rectangular flag for a school project. The diagonal distance is 5ft. What is the perimeter of the flag?
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Question 961597: A student designed a rectangular flag for a school project. The diagonal distance is 5ft. What is the perimeter of the flag?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Not enough. Do you understand why?
x and y rectangle dimensions.
diagonal of these x and y is 5 feet.
Two unknown variables and just one equation.
Perimeter is yet one more unknown variable, depending on the values of x and y both of which are unknown. Perimeter would be .
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