Find without sin,cos,tan.Parallelogram

Geometry Level 2

BPC and BQD is angle = 90 degrees,BP=4cm,DP=4cm,DC=7cm.Find the BQ


The answer is 5.6.

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2 solutions

Tunk-Fey Ariawan
Mar 16, 2014

It is easy to notice that Δ BCP Δ ABQ \Delta\text{BCP}\sim\Delta\text{ABQ} , where B A D = B C P \angle BAD=\angle BCP , A Q B = B P C \angle AQB=\angle BPC , and A B Q = C B P \angle ABQ=\angle CBP . Therefore B Q A B = B P B C B Q 7 = 4 5 B Q = 28 5 = 5.6 cm \begin{aligned} \frac{\overrightarrow{BQ}}{\overrightarrow{AB}}&=\frac{\overrightarrow{BP}}{\overrightarrow{BC}}\\ \frac{\overrightarrow{BQ}}{7}&=\frac{4}{5}\\ \overrightarrow{BQ}&=\frac{28}{5}\\ &=\boxed{5.6\text{ cm}} \end{aligned}

Rifath Rahman
Aug 1, 2014

As ABCD is a parallelogram then DC=AB=7.Now PC=DC-DP=7-4=3.Using Phythagorean theorem we get BC=5=AD(AS its a parallelogram).Now lets connect BD. Using Phythagorean theorem we get BD=4*sqrt 2.Now triangle BAD=14 (Heron's formula).In triangle BAD=1/2 * 5 * BQ=14 or BQ=(14 * 2)/5=5.6

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