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What is the greatest possible area of a rectangle with a diagonal of length 16 units?

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let the length is x and width is y of the rectangle.

the diagonal is 16 units


x^2+y^2=16

so the expression is an equation of the circle whose radius is 4.

so the maximum value that can be possible for x and y is

x = y =

What is the greatest possible area of a rectangle with a diagonal of length 16 units-example-1
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