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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Find the length of both diagonals of this quadrilateral.
All of the lengths with one mark have length 5, and all of the side lengths with two marks have length 4. With this knowledge, we can add side lengths together to find that one diagonal is the hypotenuse to this right triangle:
Using Pythagorean Theorem gives:
take the square root of each side
Similarly, the other diagonal can be found with this right triangle:
Once again using Pythagorean Theorem gives an answer of
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Find the length of the diagonals of this isosceles trapezoid, with .
To find the length of the diagonals, split the top side into 3 sections as shown below:
The two congruent sections plus 8 adds to 14. , so the two congruent sections add to 6. They must each be 3. This means that the top of the right triangle with the diagonal as a hypotenuse must be 11, since .
We can solve for the diagonal, now pictured, using Pythagorean Theorem:
take the square root of both sides
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Find the length of the diagonal of the isosceles trapezoid given below.
In order to calculate the length of the diagonal, we first must assume that the height is perpendicular to both the top and bottom of the trapezoid.
Knowing this, we can draw in the diagonal as shown below and use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for the diagonal.
We now take the square root of both sides:
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Find the length of diagonal of the trapezoid.
1) The diagonal can be found from by using the Pythagorean Theorem.
2) The length of the base of , has to be found because is the length of the base of .
3) .
4) Using the Pythagorean Theorem on to find ,
5) Using the Pythagorean Theorem on to find ,
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Figure NOT drawn to scale.
Refer to the above diagram, which shows Trapezoid with diagonal . To the nearest whole number, give the length of .
To illustrate how to determine the correct length, draw a perpendicular segment from to , calling the point of intersection .
divides the trapezoid into Rectangle and right triangle .
Opposite sides of a rectangle are congruent, so .
. The two angles of a trapezoid along the same leg - in particular, and - are supplementary, so
By the 30-60-90 Triangle Theorem,
Opposite sides of a rectangle are congruent, so , and
is the hypotenuse of right triangle , so by the Pythagorean Theorem, its length can be calculated to be
Set and :
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Figure NOT drawn to scale.
Refer to the above diagram, which shows Trapezoid with diagonal . To the nearest whole number, give the length of .
To illustrate how to determine the correct length, draw a perpendicular segment from to , calling the point of intersection .
divides the trapezoid into Rectangle and right triangle .
Opposite sides of a rectangle are congruent, so .
. The two angles of a trapezoid along the same leg - in particular, and - are supplementary, so
By the 30-60-90 Triangle Theorem,
Opposite sides of a rectangle are congruent, so , and
is the hypotenuse of right triangle , so by the Pythagorean Theorem, its length can be calculated to be
Set and :
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid
Figure NOT drawn to scale.
Refer to the above diagram, which shows Trapezoid with diagonal . To the nearest whole number, give the length of .
To illustrate how to determine the correct length, draw a perpendicular segment from to , calling the point of intersection .
divides the trapezoid into Rectangle and right triangle .
Opposite sides of a rectangle are congruent, so .
. The two angles of a trapezoid along the same leg - in particular, and - are supplementary, so
By the 45-45-45 Triangle Theorem,
and
is the hypotenuse of right triangle , so by the Pythagorean Theorem, its length can be calculated to be
Set and :
Example Question #1 : Rhombuses
Which of the following shapes is a rhombus?
A rhombus is a four-sided figure where all sides are straight and equal in length. All opposite sides are parallel. A square is considered to be a rhombus.
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Rhombus
Assume quadrilateral is a rhombus. If diagonal and diagonal , what is the area of rhombus
Solving for the area of rhombus requires knowledge of the equation for finding the area of a rhombus. The equation is , where and are the two diagonals of the rhombus. Since both of these values are given to us in the original problem, we merely need to substitute these values into the equation to obtain:
The area of rhombus is therefore square units.
Example Question #3 : Rhombuses
What is the area of the rhombus above?
The formula for the area of a rhombus from the diagonals is half the product of the diagonals, or in mathematical terms:
where and are the lengths of the diagonals.
Substituting our values yields,
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