How do you figure out the dimensions of a rhombus?

Answer by  Clement (1453)

Assuming you need to calculate the area of a rhombus, you can use one of the following approaches. First, you can measure its diagonals, multiply them and divide by two. Second, you can multiply the altitude by the length of the base. Finally, you can square the length of a side and multiply it by the sine of the angle.

Answer by  alz (2329)

You ned to know the base and the height and then you can find the area. The height is the vertical height, not the length of the slanted sides. In order to find that, you can break the rhombus into 2 triangles and a rectangle by drawing in the vertical height lines and solving from there.

Answer by  ProfStochastic (70)

A rhombus is a very special parallelogram, with all sides being the same length and the opposite angles are equal. The area of a rhombus is the product of the base times the height or altitude. From this knowledge finding all other dimensions is direct.