## anonymous 4 years ago Maggie has a kite with the dimensions shown below. What is the width of the kite?

1. anonymous

2. Mertsj

2nd one

3. anonymous

THANKS SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING

4. Mertsj

yw Could I ask you a question?

5. anonymous

Yes

6. Mertsj

You are always so polite and always say please and thank you but you never give medals? Why?

7. anonymous

whats a medal?

8. anonymous

how do i give one? ill do it on EVERY answer u gave me

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10. Mertsj

Thanks

11. anonymous

did it :) good?

Do you know how to solve it now and get that answer?

I would like to know how it was solved, what relationship of a rhombic did MertsJ utilize to obtain that solution??

How did $\sqrt{1100}$come about?

I am trying to "reverse engineer" the answer lol

Help anyone?

Maybe I am interested in$\sqrt{275}=5\sqrt{11}$

That would be the value of x hmmmmm but how is that set up?

Would it be the $x=\sqrt{25}\times \sqrt{11}$ But what relationship would result in that???

x appears to be a geometric mean between 11 and 25 but what is the relationship that says this is so?

21. amistre64

this one ...

22. amistre64

the 4f33f61de4b0fc0c1a0bbc09 was ust the tail end of the url :)

23. amistre64

what determines kite width? is it just the way it is orientated?

24. amistre64

say its got segments of ab and cd a*b = c*d is one of those geomteric things

25. amistre64

soo, 11*25 = x*x 275 = x^2 x = sqrt(275)

26. amistre64

width is then: 2sqrt(275)

O.K you say a*b=c*d

28. amistre64

the wolf says thats 10sqrt(11) so you can dbl check it if need be

29. amistre64

lol .... a smarter person than me would have noticed: 2 sqrt(25 * 11) = 2*5*sqrt(11) i spose :)

Is c and d the segments of the horizontal diagonal?

31. amistre64

yes

32. amistre64

dualing secants i believe

Thanks amistre64, you have always been helpful.

34. amistre64

youre welcome ;)

35. anonymous

The answer depends on whether x is half the bisected diagonal or the entire diagonal. The way it is drawn seems to suggest x is half that diagonal, as x is placed in the right half of that diagonal and not towards the center. Also one needs to take into account that the teacher does not wish to trip the student. So the answer should be 5√11