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Given rhombus ABCD, find area if
angleABC = 60deg
AE = 2

Given rhombus ABCD, find area if angleABC = 60deg AE = 2-example-1
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All triangles are 30-60-90, therefore the short legs (2) are half as much as the hypotenuse. Therefore the hypotenuse is 4. Because its a rhombus, all sides are congruent, so you have the length and width and can multiply them to get 16 square units.
Given rhombus ABCD, find area if angleABC = 60deg AE = 2-example-1
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