Question

A 68 centimetre long rope is used to make a rhombus on the ground. The distance between a pair of opposite corners is 16 metres.

i. What is the distance between the other two corners?

ii. What is the area of the ground bounded by the rope?

Answer 1

Length of one side of a parallelogram

= \(\frac{68}{4}\) = 17 m

d₁ = 16

OA = 8 m

Diagonals are perpendicular bisector

so, The distance between the other two vertices = 30 m