SOLUTION: 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?

Question 50826: 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?
Answer by darq(90) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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?
so we will have to right triangles:
edges will have x and x+1 lenght
and their squares' sum will equal to the square of 4.

this was the short edge

this is the long one
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