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Given square ABCD, what is the length of AD?

Given square ABCD, what is the length of AD?-example-1
User RaSha
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since it's a square, all sides are equal
therefore,
3x - 5 = x + 1
2x = 6
x = 3

sub x into AD, which is 3x-5
= 3(3) - 5
= 9 - 5
= 4

therefore AD is 4 units
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