Question

The width of a rectangle is x. Its length is 3x. How long is the diagonal of the rectangle? Express your answer in simplified radical form.

Answer 1

The length of the diagonal is x√10

Explanation:

Here, we want to find the length of the diagonal

The diagonal will represent the hypotenuse of a triangle formed with the width and length of the triangle being the measure of the other sides

Mathematically, we then apply Pythagoras’ theorem to get this

we have this as that the square of the diagonal equals the sum of the squares of the two other sides

d^2 = x^2 + (3x)^2

d^2 = x^2 + 9x^2

d^2 = 10x^2

d = √(10x^2)

d = x√10