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Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 7 cm and altitude is 8 cm.


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56 sq.cm.

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65 sq.cm.

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C

44 sq.cm.

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D

59 sq.cm.

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Solution

The correct option is A

56 sq.cm.


Note that altitude is the height of the figure.

Area of rhombus = Area of parallelogram = base x height

Area of rhombus =base×corresponding height

=7 cm×8 cm=56 sq.cm.


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