In rhombus ABCD AB=4 and AC=6. Find BD. When the answer is not a whole number, leave a square root answer?

Question

In rhombus ABCD AB=4 and AC=6. Find BD. When the answer is not a whole number, leave a square root answer?

Answer 1

In rhombus ABCD AB=4 and AC=6. Find BD. When the answer is not a whole number, leave a square root answer?

Ralph a rhombus is a parallelogram lilted  so it will make an obtuse angle but this is not necessary. So a rectangle can be consider as a rhombus.

  

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From the diagram AC = BD from diffenation of a parallelogram.

Answer 2

BD will be the hypotenuse of the triangle.

Draw a picture and treat it as a triangle. Use the formula for a right angled triangle /hypotenuse.