SOLUTION: The lenghts of the diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 12 cm.The length of the side of the rhombus is

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Question 1088842: The lenghts of the diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 12 cm.The length of the side of the rhombus is
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The rhombus, a diamond-shaped figure, has four straight sides of equal length.
One-half of the 12 cm diagonal and one-half of the 16 form the long leg and the short leg o a triangle. And we have four equal triangles.
Pythagoras:
sqrt(6^2+8^2) = hypotenuse = side of rhombus
sqrt(36+64) = 10 is the length of each side of the rhombus
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