Using Pythagoras' theorem the answer is equal to the square root of 2.
In the simplest case, it is use to find the diagonal length of a unit square.
They came from geometry. If you have a square whose sides are 1 unit long then its diagonal is sqrt(2) units long.
They need not be. A unit circle inside a square with sides of 2 units, for example, occupies 25*pi per cent of the area. But 25*pi is not a rational number.
Probably when people tried to find the length of the diagonal of a unit square [sqrt(2)].
Its diagonal is 1 unit.
The ancients - Egyptians or Greeks. They probably came across the square root of 2 when considering the diagonal of a square with sides of length 1. The cube root of 3 would have arisen, similarly, with the principal diagonal of a unit cube.
If, by diagnole, you meant diagonal, and that its length was 12√2 units, then the area is 144 square unit.
9² = 81 square units.Area= length*length= 9*9= 81 unit square
In the simplest case, it is use to find the diagonal length of a unit square.
9² = 81 square units.Area= length*length= 9*9= 81 unit square
They came from geometry. If you have a square whose sides are 1 unit long then its diagonal is sqrt(2) units long.
They need not be. A unit circle inside a square with sides of 2 units, for example, occupies 25*pi per cent of the area. But 25*pi is not a rational number.
A square having one unit side, means a side of length 1. There for Pythagorean tells us a^2+b^2=c^2; so 1^2+1^2=c^2. Therefore c=sqrt(2) but the question asks for the square of the diagonal: (sqrt(2))^2=2. Answer: 2
Probably when people tried to find the length of the diagonal of a unit square [sqrt(2)].
You use the Pythagorean Theorem, which says that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Two adjacent sides of a square (or any rectangle) together with a diagonal form a right triangle. In the case of a square, the triangle is isosceles. Calling the length of a side of the square (17 inches) one unit, the theorem tells us that the hypotenuse is the square root of 2 units. Therefore the diagonal of the square is 17 times the square root of 2 inches, which is about 24 inches.
Draw a square which is 1 unit by 1 unit in size. By Pythagoras, the diagonal of the square will be sqrt(2) units in length.
Factional exponents, in general, are not rational. For example, the length of the diagonal of a unit square, which is sqrt(2).