Two sides of a parallelogram are 20 cm and 25cm. If the altitude corresponding to the sides of length 25cm is 10cm, find the altitude corresponding to the other pair of sides:
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Two sides of a parallelogram are 20 cm and 25 cm. If the altitude corresponds to the sides of length 25 cm is 10 cm. Find the altitude corresponding to the other pair of the sides.
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Hint: Area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of the base and the height of the parallelogram. In this question length of both sides of parallelogram are given and length of their corresponding altitudes are also given so by using the area of the parallelogram formula we will equate the areas to find the missing side.
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Given the two sides of the parallelogram PQRS as
PS=QR=25 cm
PQ=SR=20 cm
We know the area of a parallelogram is the product of their base and their height and for the base QR we can see PT is its altitude and for the base SR its altitude is QU, hence we can write this as
QR×PT=SR×QU
Now we will substitute the values of the corresponding base and their altitude to find the length of the side QU
⇒25×10=20×QU⇒QU=25020=12.5cm
Now since the side QU is denoted as the symbol x, hence we can the altitude corresponding to the other pair of the sides is x=12.5cm
So, the correct answer is “12.5 cm”.
Note: Another method to find the area of a parallelogram is the half of the product of the length of the diagonals which are intersecting at any angle in corresponding to the sine function.
Given by the formula Area=12×d1×d2sin(x)
. In this question since the length of the diagonals are not given so we will find the area using base and the altitude.
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Given the two sides of the parallelogram PQRS as
PS=QR=25 cm
PQ=SR=20 cm
We know the area of a parallelogram is the product of their base and their height and for the base QR we can see PT is its altitude and for the base SR its altitude is QU, hence we can write this as
QR×PT=SR×QU
Now we will substitute the values of the corresponding base and their altitude to find the length of the side QU
⇒25×10=20×QU⇒QU=25020=12.5cm
Now since the side QU is denoted as the symbol x, hence we can the altitude corresponding to the other pair of the sides is x=12.5cm
So, the correct answer is “12.5 cm”.