Find the area of the rhombus pictured below.?

Question

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e215/xxs3xp1stolxx/9.jpg

Answer 1

The diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular bisectors of each other. They form four congruent right triangles inside the rhombus.

So the area of the rhombus is:

4(1/2)(base)(height) = 2*12*9 = 216 square centimeters