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By dividing itImproved Answer:-A rhombus has 4 equal sides and its diagonals bisect each other at 90 degrees thus forming 4 equal right angle triangles and by using Pythagoras' theorem any of the 4 equal sides can be found.
The diagonals bisect each other at right angles. So you could use Pythagoras on half the diagonals. So, if the diagonals are a and b units long, then half the diagonals are a/2 and b/2 units long. Then, by Pythagoras, the sides of the rhombus are sqrt[(a/2)2 + (b/2)2]
The diagonals of a rhombus bisect one another at right angles. So you can use Pythagoras on half the lengths of the diagonals. If the two diagonals ore of lengths a and b, then side2 = (a/2)2 + (b/2)2 or, equivalently, side = 1/2*sqrt(a2 + b2)
That will depend on the lengths of the diagonals of the rhombus which are of different lengths and intersect each other at right angles but knowing the lengths of the diagonals of the rhombus it is then possible to work out its perimeter and area.
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