To find the perimeter of a square with a diagonal of 16 cm, we first need to determine the side length of the square using the Pythagorean theorem. The diagonal of a square divides it into two right-angled triangles, with the diagonal being the hypotenuse. Using the formula a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where a and b are the two sides of the triangle and c is the hypotenuse, we can calculate that each side of the square is 8√2 cm. Since a square has four equal sides, the perimeter is 4 times the side length, giving us a perimeter of 32√2 cm.
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The length of the other diagonal works out as 12cm
The area of square is : 256.0
16cm (4 sides x 4 = 16)
3 + 3 + 5 + 5 = 16cm
The greatest area that a rectangle can have is, in fact, attained when it is a square. A square with perimeter of 16 cm must have sides of 4 cm and so an area of 4*4 = 16 cm2.