SOLUTION: A rectangle is 24 feet long and 10 feet wide and it has a rhombus inside of it by joining the midpoints of each side of the rectangle what is the length of the side of the rhombus
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Question 967877: A rectangle is 24 feet long and 10 feet wide and it has a rhombus inside of it by joining the midpoints of each side of the rectangle what is the length of the side of the rhombus
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The side of the rhombus forms the hypotenuse of a right triangle with one half the length as one leg and one half the width as the other.
a=one leg=(1/2)length=12 feet
b=other leg=(1/2)width=5 feet
c=side of rhombus=hypotenuse of right triangle
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Find the square root of each side.
ANSWER: The sides of the rhombus are 13 feet long.
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