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1961 AHSME Problem 14

A rhombus is given with one diagonal twice the length of the other diagonal. Express the side of the rhombus is terms of K, where K is the area of the rhombus in square inches.

\textbf{(A)}\ \sqrt{K}\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{2K}\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \frac{1}{3}\sqrt{3K}\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{1}{4}\sqrt{4K}\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of these are correct}


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