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If the area of the rhombus below is 273 m 2, and diagonal AC = 13 m, find the length of diagonal BD.

If the area of the rhombus below is 273 m 2, and diagonal AC = 13 m, find the length-example-1
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C.\:42

1) Since the area of a Rhombus is given by the product of their diagonals over 2. We can tell that:


\begin{gathered} A=(AC* BD)/(2) \\ \\ 273=(13BD)/(2) \\ \\ 13BD=546 \\ \\ BD=(546)/(13) \\ \\ BD=42 \end{gathered}

2) Thus, we can tell that the length of BD is 42

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