document.write( "Question 1083256: A designer of decorative tiles wants to have some custom tiles made in the shape of a rhombus, with one diagonal twice the length of the other. If each side of a tile is to be 16 inches long, what will be the length of its shorter diagonal, to the nearest hundredth of an inch?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\"a=16in\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"16%5E2=%28d%5B1%5D%2F2%29%5E2%2B%28d%5B2%5D%2F2%29%5E2\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"256=%285%2F4%29%28d%5B2%5D%29%5E2\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"256%2F%285%2F4%29=%28d%5B2%5D%29%5E2\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"204.8=%28d%5B2%5D%29%5E2\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"d%5B2%5D=sqrt%28204.8%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"d%5B2%5D=14.31\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "answer: c. \"14.31in\"\r
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