SOLUTION: please help me solve this, find the area of a rectangle whose side is 5 feet and whose diagonal is {{{ sqrt(74)}}}, thankyou

Question 536709: please help me solve this, find the area of a rectangle whose side is 5 feet and whose diagonal is , thankyou
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
find the area of a rectangle whose side is 5 feet and whose diagonal is
.
Apply Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the other side:
Let x = length of other side of rectangle
then

feet
.
Area then is:
5*7 = 35 square feet

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