A parallelogram has sides with lengths of 16 and 15. If the parallelogram's area is 60, what is the length of its longest diagonal?

1 Answer

Length of the longer diagonal d=30.7532 units

Explanation:

The required in the problem is to find the longer diagonal d

Area of the parallelogram A=baseheight=bh
Let base b=16
Let other side a=15
Let the height h=Ab

Solve for height h
h=Ab=6016

h=154

Let θ be the larger interior angle which is opposite the longer diagonal d.

θ=180sin1(ha)=18014.4775
θ=165.522

By the Cosine Law, we can solve now for d

d=(a2+b22abcosθ)
d=(152+16221516cos165.522)
d=30.7532 units

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