The perimeter of a square is 36. What is the length of the diagonal?
1 Answer
Oct 12, 2015
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Explanation:
Since a square has all 4 sides equal, it implies that each side must be 9 units in order for the perimeter to be 36.
Hence the length of a diagonal will be the hypotenuse in a right angled triangle of base and height 9 units.
We may then use Pythagoras to find this diagonal as follows :