Question

The diagonal of a rectangle is 10 units. The width is 6 units, What is the area of the rectangle in square
units?

Answer 1

Answer:

48 square units

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the length of the rectangle be x units.

By Pythagoras theorem:

$x = \sqrt{ {10}^{2} - {6}^{2} } \\ x = \sqrt{ 100 - 36 } \\ x = \sqrt{64} \\ x = 8 \: units$

Length of rectangle = 8 units

Area of rectangle

= Length * width

= 8 * 6

= 48 square units