SOLUTION: This parallelogram has points A (2, 0), B (3, ?), and D (5, 0), and AB = (squareroot)10. What is the location of vertex C?

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Question 842297: This parallelogram has points A (2, 0), B (3, ?), and D (5, 0), and AB = (squareroot)10. What is the location of vertex C?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The question is slightly open-ended. B could be above or below the x axis.

For AB:




OR
The point B is (3,-3) OR (3,3).

(6,3) is a possibility for point C. Figure this through visual thinking or draw a graph to help, or do some coordinate geometric algebra using slopes and line equations.

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