SOLUTION: The area of a rectangle is 60 square meters. The length of the rectangle is 12 meters. Find the length of the diagonal of the rectangle.
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Question 395835: The area of a rectangle is 60 square meters. The length of the rectangle is 12 meters. Find the length of the diagonal of the rectangle.
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
We can solve this in 2 steps.
First step, let's find the width:
12x=60
Divide both sides by 12:
x=5 meters
Now we use the Pythagorean formula:
5^2+12^2=c^2
Do the math and we get:
Diagonal is 13 meters.
Make sense?
RJ
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