What are ways using coordinate geometry, that I could determine that this is a trapezoid?
1 answer:
One method to see it's a trapezoid is to find the slope of lines BC and AD.
The slope formula is
m = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1)
You should find that BC and AD both have the same slope (of -1), so that means the lines are parallel. That proves we have a trapezoid.
-----------------------
To prove this trapezoid is isosceles, you can use the distance formula
to find the lengths of AB and CD (the two non-parallel sides). You should find that AB = CD.
Because AB and CD are horizontal and vertical respectively, this means you can simply count out the spaces to find that AB and CD are 3 units each. For any other rotated version of this trapezoid, use the distance formula instead.
You might be interested in
Answer:
b = (T - a - c - d) / 3
Step-by-step explanation:
Let T be the total number of points required to advance.
a, c and d are points scored in the local matches, and b is the number of points scored in the district match. If b is worth 3 times as much as the other matches, the total number of points is given by:
Isolate b in order to find out how many points they need in the district match:
They need to score (T - a - c - d)/3, in the district match in order to win.