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Sketch the following to help answer the question. Kite QRST has a short diagonal of QS and a long diagonal of RT. The diagonals intersect at point P. Side QR = 5m and diagonal QS = 6m. Find the length
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Sketch the following to help answer the question. Kite QRST has a short diagonal of QS and a long diagonal of RT. The diagonals intersect at point P. Side QR = 5m and diagonal QS = 6m. Find the length of segment RP.

User Sajad Norouzi
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the two diagonals intersects at right-angle for a kite

the long diagonal also bisects the short diagonal so QP = PS = QS/2 = 6/2 = 3

QPR is a right-angle triangle with QR at 5 and QR at 3

RP = sqrt (5^2 - 3^) = 4m




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