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Rational Numbers

Question
CBSEENMA8002309

The following figures GUNS and RUNS are parallelograms. Find x and y. (Lengths are in cm.)

Solution

(i)   ∵ GUNS is a parallelogram

Its opposite sides are equal

  GS = NU and SN = GU

or 3x = 18 and 26 = 3y-1
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