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Example Question #41 : Perimeter And Sides Of Quadrilaterals
A square and a right triangle share a side as shown by the figure below.
Find the area of the square.
Notice that the side of the square is the same as the hypotenuse of the right triangle.
Use Pythagorean's theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse.
Now that we have the length of a side of the square, find the area.
Example Question #42 : Perimeter And Sides Of Quadrilaterals
Find the perimeter of trapezoid if .
Since we know that , we can set up the following ratio to find the lengths of and because of the triangle.
Using that value,
Thus, we can find the perimeter of the trapezoid.
Example Question #43 : Perimeter And Sides Of Quadrilaterals
What is the perimeter of a square that has an area of ?
First we need to recognize that in order to find perimeter we first need to figure out the length of each side of the square. The formula for area of a square is
where is side
To solve for we need to take the square root of both sides
Now that we know our side length is 13, we can plug it into our perimeter equation and solve for s
We multiply 4 and 13
Notice our answer is in ft because perimeters are linear