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A Special Parallelogram

A parallelogram has adjacent sides a,b and the angle between them, \( \measuredangle = 45^{\circ} \).

If the product of the diagonals is \(4\sqrt{2} \) what is \(a^4+b^4\)?

Why is there only one answer even thought there is more than one possible parallelogram?


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David Marain
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