What Is the Area of a Rhombus Whose Diagonal Are 12 cm and 16 cm ?

By Team Aakash Byju's | 17th January 2023

What is the area of a rhombus whose diagonals are 12 cm and 16 cm?

12 cm

16 cm

Let ARST be the rhombus whose diagonals are AS and RT as shown below.

12 cm

16 cm

T

Z

S

R

A

To find the area of the rhombus, the formula used is

Area of rhombus

1

2

×

Product of lengths of two diagonals

=

12 cm

16 cm

T

Z

S

R

A

12 cm

16 cm

A

T

Z

S

R

Area of rhombus =

1

2

×

d

×

d

1

2

Area of rhombus =

Area of rhombus =

×

×

d

1

2

d

2

2

16

24

=

96 cm

2