Timothy has a fenced-in garden in the shape of a rhombus. The length of the longer diagonal is 24 feet, and the length of the shorter diagonal is 18 feet.What is the length of one side of the fenced-in garden?
When you are looking at a rhombus you know that it will be 4 congruent triangles when the diagonals are added in. So if you draw the rhombus each of the triangles will have one side that is 12 feet and another that is 9. You can now use Pythagorean’s theorem to find the length of a side. The length will be 15 feet.
