Question

If the sides of the table are all 1.5 m long, what is the length of the sides of the cloth?

Answer 1

Given that,

The table cloth are all 1.5 m long.

According to figure,

Let the side of table cloth is AC.

We need to calculate the length of the sides of the table cloth

Using pythagoras theorem

Where, AC = diagonal length

AB = BC = given length

Put the value into the formula

Hence, The length of the sides of the tablecloth is 2.12 m.