SOLUTION: THE QUESTION IS: FIND THE AREA OF THE RHOMBUS. WHEN D1= (6x+4) and D2= (10x+10) I DONT UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERES SUPPOSED TO BE A VARIABLE OF (Y) INCLUDED WITH THE QU

Question 196856: THE QUESTION IS: FIND THE AREA OF THE RHOMBUS. WHEN D1= (6x+4) and D2= (10x+10) I DONT UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERES SUPPOSED TO BE A VARIABLE OF (Y) INCLUDED WITH THE QUESTION???
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Apparently no one ever told you that typing in all caps is the electronic equivalent of shouting. It is therefore both annoying and rude.

The diagonals of a rhombus form two triangles where the base is the measure of one of the diagonals and the altitude is half the measure of the other. The area of one of these triangles is one-half the base times the height, so the area of the rhombus is twice that, or just the base times the height.

So, just divide one of the expressions for a diagonal by 2, then multiply the result by the expression for the other diagonal. The resulting expression will be a function for the area of the rhombus in terms of x.

John

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