The rectangle ABCD is shown below.
AB = X
The ratio between AB and BC is .
The length of diagonal AC is labelled m.
Determine the value of m:
The rectangle ABCD is shown below.
AB = X
The ratio between AB and BC is .
The length of diagonal AC is labelled m.
Determine the value of m:
We know that:
We also know that AB equals X.
First, we will substitute the given data into the formula accordingly:
Now let's look at triangle ABC and use the Pythagorean theorem:
We substitute in our known values:
Finally, we will add 1 to both sides: