SOLUTION: A square piece of a paper is folded in half along the diagonal .the area of the
resulting triangle is 50 square cm . how many centimeters was the perimeter of the original square
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Question 173040: A square piece of a paper is folded in half along the diagonal .the area of the
resulting triangle is 50 square cm . how many centimeters was the perimeter of the original square ? Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source):
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The area of the square is double the area of the triangle.
Thus, area of square is 100 square cm.
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Let x = length of one side of the square
then
x^2 = 100
x = 10 cm
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Perimeter of any square is four times the length of one side:
perimeter = 4x = 4(10) = 40 cm
