Question

A rhombus has a short diagonal of 24 cm and a long diagonal of 32 cm. What is the perimeter of the rhombus?

Answer 1

I ended up getting 60 as my best guess.

Answer 2

You gotta find the hypotenuse of the right triangle that you see right there.
Then, you multiply that by 4(because all the sides are equal).

Crappy diagram - but you get the point.

Answer 3

If they had a rotate button for the square tool :P

Answer 4

I might post that in feedback... anyways

Answer 5

Nope. A rhombus \(\ne\) square, fyi.

Answer 6

Yeah I know but still a rotating button could be useful for diamonds :P

Answer 7

Back to the question. You find the hypotenuse by Pythagorean Theorem.

\( \color{Black}{\Rightarrow 24^2 + 32^2 = \text{Side of the rhombus}^2}\)

Answer 8

A diamond \(\ne\) square, either ;)

Answer 9

You D:< idea ruin-er xD

Answer 10

lol :)

Answer 11

I would divide both diagonals by 2 before using pythagoras

Answer 12

Thanks for reminding that. Whoops.

Answer 13

\( \color{Black}{\Rightarrow 12^2 + 16^2 = \text{side of a rhombus}^2}\)

Answer 14

was I supposed to do 12*12?

Answer 15

or 12*2 and 16*2 =80

Answer 16

the little 2 in the upper right means multiply by itself twice. so \( 12^2\) = 12*12
so the side of the rhombus squared =12*12+16*16
remember to take the square root to find the side
then multiply by 4 to get the perimeter.

Answer 17

ah

Answer 18

okay