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A gardener wants to divide a square piece of lawn in half diagonally. what is the length of the diagonal side of the square is 8 fr. leave your answer in simplest radical form.

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Answer:

8√2 feet

Explanation:

You want the length of the diagonal of a square that is 8 ft on a side.

Diagonal

The diagonal of a square is the hypotenuse of the isosceles right triangle with leg lengths equal to the sides of the square. The ratios of side lengths in such a triangle is ...

1 : 1 : √2

Then the lengths of the sides of that triangle are ...

8 ft : 8 ft : 8√2 ft . . . . . multiply ratio values by 8 ft

The diagonal length is 8√2 feet.

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Additional comment

If you use the Pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal length, you will determine it is ...

d = √(8² +8²) = 8√(1+1) = 8√2 . . . . feet

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