SOLUTION: Find the diagnoal of a square whose sides are 6 units
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Question 85464: Find the diagnoal of a square whose sides are 6 units
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since we have a triangle with legs of 6 , 6 and a hypotenuse of x(our unknown side), we can use Pythagoreans theorem to find the unknown side.
Pythagoreans theorem
Plug in a=6 and b=6 and lets solve for c
Square each individual term
Combine like terms
Take the square root of both sides
Simplify
So our answer is
which reduces to
It turns out that if you have a square with sides of , then the diagonal is
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