the ratio of adjacent side of parrallelogram is 2:3.If the area is 1536 sq cm.find the side of the parrallelogram?
How to find out side of parrallelogram,if the ratio of adjacent side & area is given?
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- 3+ months ago by Antaryami
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- side, area, mathematics
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No, that won't suffice. You will need the height (perpendicular between two parallel sides) or the angle between two adjacent sides. In the case of an rectangle, which is a special case of parallelogram, you have the angle 90°. Hence the area: a * b * sin 90 = a * b * 1 = a * b.
Given the ratio 2:3 and the area this would add up to:
a * (3 / 2) * a = a² * (3 / 2) = 1536
a² = 1024
a = 32
But in the general case of a parallelogram with no given angle nor the height there is no unique solution.