Question

A kite has a perimeter of 108 feet. One of the longer sides measures 30 feet. What are the lengths of the other three sides?

Answer 1

Answer: Hello mate!

The kite has two equal-length long sides and two equal-length shorter sides. We also know that the perimeter is the addition of the four sides, where we have two long sides, L, and two short sides, S.

Then 2S + 2L = 108ft

S + L = 54 ft

if L = 30 feet

S + 30 ft = 54ft

S = 54ft - 30 ft = 24ft

Then the other long side also has 30ft length, and the two shorter sides have 24ft length.

Answer 2

30 feet, 24 feet, 24 feet

Explanation:

A kite is a quadrilateral with two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.

One of the longer sides measures 30 feet. According to the definition, the kite has two sides of length 30 feet. Let x feet be the length of another side.

The perimeter of the kite is

`2\cdot 30+2\cdot x\ feet`

Since the kite has a perimeter of 108 feet, we have

`2\cdot 30+2\cdot x=108\\ \\60+2x=108\\ \\2x=108-60\\ \\2x=48\\ \\x=24`

The length of two another sides is 24 feet. The kite has two sides of 30 feet and two sides of 24 feet.