Some car jacks are constructed like a collapsed rhombus. When used to raise a​ car, the rhombus is easily seen. If the sides of the rhombus are 15​", what is the maximum length of the​ shaft?

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Some car jacks are constructed like a collapsed rhombus. When used to raise a car, the rhombus is easily seen. If the sides of the rhombus are 15 inches, what is the maximum length of the shaft?

Maximum length of shaft = 30 inches

Step-by-step explanation:

To understand this clearly, I've attached a real life image of a car jack that's in the shape of a rhombus.

From the attached image, we can see that it has four sides which are equal in length.

Now, if this jack is collapsed, the shaft will just be like a straight line with a maximum length equal to twice a side of the rhombus which represents the maximum length of the diagonal.

Since we are told that one side of the rhombus is 15 inches, it means that the maximum length of shaft = 2 × 15 = 30 inches