SOLUTION: The area of a square is 64 centimeters squared. Find the length of a diagonal.
a. 8 cm
b. 8, square root of 3 cm
c. 32 cm
d. 8, square root of 2 cm
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-> SOLUTION: The area of a square is 64 centimeters squared. Find the length of a diagonal.
a. 8 cm
b. 8, square root of 3 cm
c. 32 cm
d. 8, square root of 2 cm
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Question 282056: The area of a square is 64 centimeters squared. Find the length of a diagonal.
a. 8 cm
b. 8, square root of 3 cm
c. 32 cm
d. 8, square root of 2 cm Answer by Mathematicians(84) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since it is a square, every side is the same.
Which means the side must be 8 because 8 * 8 = 64.
If we draw a diagonal of a square, you will have a triangle, the hypotenuse is:
since the sides of the triangle are the same:
