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Homework Statement
Given is a parallelogram which has diagonals of the length 7 (e) and 9 units (f). How big is its circumference?
The sides are a,b,c,d; a being the bottom side, rest is anti-clockwise... alpha is the angle of a etc...
Homework Equations
no are given, i guess pythagoras or trig might be useful.
diagonals of a parallelogram (might be useful)
e=sqrt(a^2+d^2+2*a*d*cos(alpha))
f=sqrt (a^2+d^2-2*a*d*cos(alpha))
alpha=gamma
beta=delta
beta=180-alpha
The Attempt at a Solution
I tried using this first of all by drawing lots of triangles in the parallelogram and solve it with pythagoras or trig functions but without success
afterwards i tried using the formulas for the diagonals but without knowing a and d i didn't have much of a success either