document.write( "Question 1143632: A rectangle is drawn on a coordinate plane. I have the coordinates of one corner of the rectangle is (0,-5) and the coordinates of the opposite corner is (7,3), Then what is the area of the rectangle
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document.write( "Actually, you are given only one diagonal of a rectangle as a segment in a coordinate plane.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is NOT ENOUGH to determine the area of a rectangle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is not enough to restore THE rectangle by an UNIQUE way as a shape.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Think about this (such) rectangle as inscribed to the circle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You are given only the diameter of this circle as the segment in the plane, \r\n" );
document.write( "but you can have INFINITELY MANY rectangles inscribed to this circle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "By the way, the length of the diagonal is   =  =  = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "The maximum possible area of such a rectangle is   =  = 56.5 square units,\r\n" );
document.write( "when a rectangle becomes a square with the given diagonal length.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, the answer can not be A), since the area can not be negative.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The answer can not be D), too, since it is TOO BIG value (= impossible value).\r\n" );
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document.write( "But the answer CAB BE  B)  or  C), and you CAN NOT distinct between these two cases.\r\n" );
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