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11 years ago
If a rectangle has an area of 32 in^2, what are its dimensions if the distance from one corner to the midpoint of a nonadjacent side is as small as possible?

I'm not sure how to go about doing this :\
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11 years ago
It is similar like the problem would ask for the minimum DIAGONAL of the rectangle of 1/2 of the area.

The minimum diagonal would be for a square, therefore, our rectangle has the length twice the width

L= 2W ==> corner to the midpoint of L will be of minim length

L = 8
W = 4
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