Rectangular Prism Diagonals: Identifying Equal Interior Lines in 3D Geometry

Question

Look at the dotted diagonal in the figure below.

Which diagonals of the rectangular prism are equal?

AAABBBCCCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHH

Video Solution

Solution Steps

00:00 How many identical diagonals are there to the drawn diagonal?
00:03 A face in a box is a rectangle
00:06 In a rectangle, the diagonals are equal to each other
00:12 In a box, opposite faces are equal
00:25 Equal rectangles have equal diagonals
00:36 And this is the solution to the question

Step-by-Step Solution

Let's look at the face AEHD

In it, there is another diagonal equal to ED, which is AH

Let's look at the face BFGC which is identical and equal to AEHD, in which there are two diagonals that are also equal to ED:

FC=BG=ED FC=BG=ED

Answer

AH,BG,FC AH,BG,FC