Question

A rectangle is 30 inches long. The diagonal is 50 inches how wide is the rectangle?

Answer 1

The answer is 1,500. You have to multiply 30 and 50.

Answer 2

40

Step-by-step explanation: A rectangle is a quadralaterial with 4 90 degree angles made up of two diagonals. If we draw one diagonal, it would split the rectangles into two right triangles. Since a rectangle has a right angle, we can use pythagorean theorem to solve the missing side.

`a^(2) +b^(2) =c^(2)` where a and b are the length and widith and c is the diagonal length. Let plug it in

`30^(2) +b^(2) =50^(2)`

900+
`b^(2)`=2500

`b^(2) =1600`

`\sqrt{1600 =`40

b=40