How do you find the area of a square whose diagonal is 32?

sean asked:

i need to figure this out as soon as possible for its due in about half hour so if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated

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1 comment to How do you find the area of a square whose diagonal is 32?

Jacinta

October 29th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Let’s say the square has sides of x length. From Pythagoras:
x² + x² = 32²
2x² = 1024
x² = 512

Area = 512 square units.

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