okay so I have a rhombus here and I forgot how to find the values of a and b on the rhombus.

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anonymous · Answer

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campbell_st · Answer

ok... do you know the type of triangles created by the diagonal...?

anonymous · Answer

umm....

campbell_st · Answer

ok.... what do you know about a rhombus...

anonymous · Answer

It's a quadrilateral with four equal sides. It's a parallolgram. nd tht all sides equal 180...nd sum other stuff too

campbell_st · Answer

ok... so look at the triangle with the a and 26, its a triangle with 2 equal sides.... called an isosceles triangle... 

do you know the angle property for an isosceles triangle..?

anonymous · Answer

AB=AC, then C=B ?

campbell_st · Answer

that looks fine... so you have 2 angles of 26 degrees... you can find a using angle sum of a triangle.

anonymous · Answer

okay thank you @campbell_st

campbell_st · Answer

do you know how to find b..?

anonymous · Answer

yea i do....I take 26+26+b=180 right?

campbell_st · Answer

thats the solution for angle a       a = 180 - 26 - 26

the angle marked b

campbell_st · Answer

you said that the rhombus is a parallelogram 

then the diagonal is a transversal... 

and you have an angle measure and b on opposite sides of the transversal....