A rectangular garden 6 meters wide has a diagonal measuring 10 meters. Find the perimeter of the garden

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kc_kennylau · Answer

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kc_kennylau · Answer

Use the Pyth Thm perhaps?

ipwnbunnies · Answer

Right, use Pyth Thm to find the length of the rectangle. I trust you can find the perimeter knowing the length and width of a rectangle.

elisaneedshelp · Answer

does the diagonal count as width?....

anonymous · Answer

yeah right through pythagorian theorem u can solve it so you can get 8m and the perimeter is 28m

ipwnbunnies · Answer

No, they already gave you the width of 6. The diagonal is a diagonal.

anonymous · Answer

8 is the length

elisaneedshelp · Answer

How did you figure out the lenth? @heidi_xingxing

elisaneedshelp · Answer

@iPwnBunnies how did she figure out the lenght?

ipwnbunnies · Answer

The pythagorean theorem, manipulating it. a^2 + b^2 = c^2. We're trying to find a or b, however you're looking at it. a = sqrt(c^2 - b^2). a will be the length of the rectangle.

elisaneedshelp · Answer

but i dont understand how to do it in this problem

ipwnbunnies · Answer

They gave us this diagonal so we can find the length of the side.When the rectangle is split by the diagonal, it forms 2 right triangles. Coincidently, one side of the triangle is the width, and the other side of the triangle is the length, and they gave us the hypotenuse.

anonymous · Answer

$$\sqrt{10^{2}-6^{2}}$$

anonymous · Answer

given the width 6 and the length 8 from the pyth you can now solve the perimeter and P=28m

kc_kennylau · Answer

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