SOLUTION: What is the length of the longest side of a triangle that has vertices at (7, 6), (7, 1), and (-5, 6)?
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Question 601486: What is the length of the longest side of a triangle that has vertices at (7, 6), (7, 1), and (-5, 6)?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the distance formula on each of three pairs of vertices:
^2\ +\ (y_1\ -\ y_2)^2})
where )
and )
are the coordinates of the given points.
Hint: Two of your calculations are trivial because one of the sides of the triangle is horizontal and the other is vertical.
Once you have the three distances calculated, pick the largest one.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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