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Construct a rhombus the lengths of whose diagonals are 6 cm and 8 cm.

STEP 1: At first draw a base line of 8 cm.



STEP 2: Draw a perpendicular bisector of AB. Let, M be the centre of AB.



STEP 3: Then draw arcs of radius 3 cm from M on both the sides of the perpendicular line with the help of compass.



STEP 4: Join AD, DB, BC and CA.



ADBC is the rhombus.


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