The area of a square is 72 square feet. What is the length of a diagonal of the square?
2 Answers
Jul 17, 2017
Our keys for this problem is the pythagorean theorem and the are formula
Explanation:
So the lenght of the vertices is
If you consider the orthogonal traingle composed of two vertices and the diagonal of the square then the diagonal is the hypotenuse.
So the lenght of it is
Jul 20, 2017
See explanation.
Explanation:
First we find the side length:
Now we can calculate the diagonal:
Answer:
The diagonal is 12 feet long.