document.write( "Question 774723: If the endpoints of a segment are (10,3) and (20,17) how do you know it is a diagonal segment?
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"Diagonal Segment\" is really non-standard terminology, however I suspect you mean a segment that is not orthogonal to any of the axes in your coordinate system. Endpoints of segments orthogonal to the axes in

either have identical

-coordinates in the case of a segment perpendicular to the

-axis and parallel to (or coincident with) the

-axis, or they have identical

-coordinates in the case of a segment perpendicular to the

-axis and parallel to the

-axis. In your case, the segment is non-orthogonal because

AND

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