Diagonals of a Rhombus
The diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles. It means that they intersect at a 90-degree angle, a property not shared by all quadrilaterals.
- This perpendicular intersection results in the diagonals dividing the rhombus into four congruent right-angled triangles.
- While the sides of a rhombus are of equal length, its diagonals are generally of different lengths and they bisect the internal angles of the rhombus.
- Each diagonal cuts an angle of the rhombus into two equal parts.
- The lengths of the diagonals can be used to calculate the area of the rhombus, with the formula
Area=d1×d2, where d 1 and d2 are the lengths of the diagonals.
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Rhombus: Definition, Properties, Formula and Examples
Rhombus is a quadrilateral with all four sides equal and opposite sides parallel to each other. The opposite angles of a rhombus are equal. Any rhombus can be considered a parallelogram, but not all parallelograms are rhombus.
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