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Given:• EFGH is a rhombus• The perimeter of EFGH is 32m70HWhich is closest to the length of EG?5.50 7.51516

Given:• EFGH is a rhombus• The perimeter of EFGH is 32m70HWhich is closest to the-example-1
User Upshake
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Take into account that the each side of the rhombus has the same length, then, each side has the following length:


\text{s}=(32)/(4)=8

moreover, consider that segment EG is one diagonal of the rhombus, then, use the following formula to get the length of EG:


EG=s\sqrt[]{2+2\cos \theta}

where θ = 70.

Replace the values of θ and s into the expression fro EG:


EG=8\sqrt[]{2+2\cos 70}=13.10

by comparing with the given answer choices, you can conclude that the closest length is 15.

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