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A walkway forms one diagonal of a square playground. The walkway is 32 m long. How long is each side?

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Answer:30.45751052, or 30.5

Explanation:

since you know that the playground is a square, a diagonal would cut the square into 2 45-45-90 triangles, now that you know that information, there is a really easy way to solve the problem, the way i did it was i used the law of sines, which states that side a/sin(angle A)=side b/sin(angle B). so 32/sin(90)=30.7943... substitute that into the equation and you get 30.7943... =side b/sin(angle B). since you know that angle B =45 degrees take the sin of that and multiply it by 30.7943 to get the answer.

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