Question

In the figure shown, ABCD is a parallelogram, AC = 16, and BD = 30 inches determine BC.

Answer 1

If it looks like this:

A -------------------- B
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C -------------------- D

Then BC is the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 16 and 30. Using the Pythagorean Theorem you can solve for the length of the hypotenuse:


`h^2 = 16^2 + 30^`

`h= √(256+900)`

`h =34`