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Question 1083257: 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 12 inches long, what will be the length of its shorter diagonal, to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
Select one:
a. 8.00 in
b. 10.73 in
c. 5.37 in
d. 21.47 in Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source):
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given:
where is shorter diagonal
side, and half of each diagonal form right triangle, so use Pythagorean theorem
answer is: b.
