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a field in the form of a rhombus has each side length of 64m and altitude 16m. what is the side of a square field which has the same area as that of the rhombus.

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Solution

A rhombus is a parallelogram
A=base*height
is the formula for finding the area of a parallelogram

A=64*16
A=1024 square meters

Now
A=side²
is the formula for the area of a square

1024=s²
√1024=s
32=s

the square with the same area has each side length 32 m.

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