CAT 2018 Geometry & Mensuration Question (Medium)

Question

A parallelogram ABCD has area 48 sqcm. If the length of CD is 8 cm and that of AD is s cm, then which one of the following is necessarily true?

Accepted Answer

Step 1 Area of a parallelogram base height Here, base , let height corresponding to this base be So Step 2 Now, is a side forming angle with . So, area can also be written as Area Then Since , Minimum possible value of occurs when Then So to satisfy , is necessarily true. Final Answer The correct co

CAT 2018

Quantitative

Geometry & Mensuration

Medium

A parallelogram ABCD has area 48 sqcm. If the length of CD is 8 cm and that of AD is s cm, then which one of the following is necessarily true?

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