Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 6 cm and whose altitude is 4 cm. If one of the diagonals is 8 cm long, find the length of the other diagonal.

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Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 6 cm and whose altitude is 4 cm. If one of the diagonals is 8 cm long, find the length of the other diagonal.

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answered Dec 30, 2017 by anukriti (13,536 points) 5 10 19
selected Dec 30, 2017 by Golu
 
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Since rhombus is also a kind of parallelogram. 

Therefore, Area of rhombus = Base x Altitude = 6 x 4 = 24 cm2

Hence, the length of the other diagonal is 6 cm.

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