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Example Question #511 : Plane Geometry
A checkerboard has an area of and one of the sides has a length of . What is the length of the other side of the board?
We can use the formula for the area of a rectangle to find the length of the side with the information provided:
Example Question #511 : Basic Geometry
If a graham cracker has a width of and an area of , what would be the length of the cracker?
We can solve for the missing length using the formula for area of a rectangle:
Example Question #511 : Basic Geometry
A rectangle has a width of 5 meters. Its length is 2.5 times the width. What is the length of the long side and the total area of this rectangle?
None of these.
"2.5 times the width" is equivalent to 2.5w. The length of the long side is .
The area is
Example Question #512 : Basic Geometry
A rectangle has a perimeter of . Its width is 5 in. What is the length of one long side?
None of these.
The perimeter of a rectangle can be found with .
Fill in the information given, and solve for l:
Example Question #102 : Rectangles
Brady wants create a garage with an area of 2000 square feet. He needs the garage to be 50 feet long to fit all of his equipment. How wide will the garage be?
None of the answers given are correct
Since we have the area, and we have the length, we use the area of a rectangle formula to find the missing side length.
divide both sides by 50 to get the variable by itself
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Rectangle
A rectangle has a length of 12 in and a width of 5 in. What is the diagonal of the rectangle?
To find the diagonal we use the Pythagorean Theorem:
where = hypotenuse
or
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Rectangle
One side of a rectangle is 7 inches and another is 9 inches. How many inches long is the rectangle's diagonal?
You can find the diagonal of a rectangle if you have the width and the height. The diagonal equals the square root of the width squared plus the height squared.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Rectangle
Find the length of the diagonal.
The rectangle can be cut into two equal right triangles, where the hypotenuse of both is the rectangle's diagonal.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the hypotenuse:
, where a and b are the legs and c is the hypotenuse
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Rectangle
A standard high school basketball court is 84 feet long and 50 feet wide. During practice, Coach K has Kyrie run from one the right corner on one end of the court to the left corner at the other end of the court. To the nearest foot, how far did Kyrie run?
A picture helps greatly with this problem, so we begin with a rectangular basketball court.
We note that the distance run by Kyrie (drawn in red) is the diagonal of our rectangle, which we will call . We should also not that this diagonal divides our rectangle into two congruent right triangles. We can therefore find the length of our diagonal by focusing on one of these triangles and determining the hypotenuse. This can be done with the Pythagorean Theorem, which gives us:
Taking the square root gives us
Rounding to the nearest foot gives an answer of 98.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Rectangle
A rectangle has a height of and a base of . What is the length of its diagonal rounded to the nearest tenth?
1. Use Pythagorean Theorem with and .
2. Solve for , the length of the diagonal:
This rounds down to because the hundredth's place () is less than .
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