Question:
The area of a rhombus is 240 cm2 and one of the diagonal is 16 cm. Find another diagonal.
Solution:
Given:
Area of the rhombus $=240 \mathrm{~cm}$
Length of one of its diagonals $=16 \mathrm{~cm}$
We know that if the diagonals of a rhombus are $\mathrm{d}_{1}$ and $\mathrm{d}_{2}$, then the area of the rhombus is given by :
Area $=\frac{1}{2}\left(\mathrm{~d}_{1} \times \mathrm{d}_{2}\right)$
Putting the given values:
$240=\frac{1}{2}\left(16 \times \mathrm{d}_{2}\right)$
$240 \times 2=16 \times \mathrm{d}_{2}$
This can be written as follows:
$16 \times \mathrm{d}_{2}=480$
$\mathrm{~d}_{2}=\frac{480}{16}$
$\mathrm{~d}_{2}=30 \mathrm{~cm}$
Thus, the length of the other diagonal of the rhombus is $30 \mathrm{~cm}$.