SOLUTION: Two isosceles right triangles share a hypotenuse to form a quadrilateral. If the length of one side is 24 in,what is the area of the quadrilateral? What is the length of the hypote

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Question 971175: Two isosceles right triangles share a hypotenuse to form a quadrilateral. If the length of one side is 24 in,what is the area of the quadrilateral? What is the length of the hypotenuse? And what type of quadrilateral is it?
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The area of the quadrilateral is square inches. The measure of the hypotenuse, that is the diagonal of the quadrilateral is . The quadrilateral is a square.

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