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The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than its width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dime
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The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than its width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dimensions (the length and the width) of the rectangle?
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Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let length be x. So the width is x-1.
A Rectangle...quoted the diagonal. Draw this and you see a right angled triangle...Pythagoras' Theorem.
Hence:
Solve this quadratic... either factorise or use the quadratic formula.
Good luck
jon.
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