Question

A square garden has a diagonal length of 18 feet. What is the area of the garden?

Answer 1

Answer:

162 square feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the side lengths of the square be l feet each.

Then the diagonal together with any two sides forms an isosceles right triangle.

We can apply the Pythagoras Theorem, which says that, the sum of the squares of the two shorter legs equals the square of the hypotenuse ( the diagonal) in this case.

Divide both sides by

The area of the square garden is 162 ft²

The number of 1 foot by 1 foot square planter boxes that can fill this garden is