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If the area of a rhombus is 100 square inches and one of the diagonals is 25 inches long, what is the length of the other diagonal?

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Answer:

8 inches.

Explanation:

Area of rhombus =
(pq)/(2)

Where p is 25 ( one of the lengths) and the q is the other one.

Substituting we should have something like this:
(25 q)/(2) = 100

Solving for q, we get q = 8.

Hope this helps.

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