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How do you find the area of a rectangle with a diagnol of 50 inches and a base of 48 inches
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it will form a right triangle
so applying pythagoras theorem, we can get the other side of the rectangle..
diagonal2 = base2 + height2
2500 = 2304 + height2
so height = 14 inches
area of rectangle = base * height = 48 * 14 = 672 square inches