SOLUTION: If the vertices of a triangle are (3,4), (5,7), and (0,6) determine if the triangle is a right triangle.

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Question 749005: If the vertices of a triangle are (3,4), (5,7), and (0,6) determine if the triangle is a right triangle.
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Calculate the slope of the line that contains the points (3,4) and (5,7). Then calculate the slope of the line that contains the points (3,4) and (0,6). Finally, calculate the slope of the line that contains the points (5,7) and (0,6). If any pair of the three slopes calculated are negative reciprocals of each other, then the two lines represented are perpendicular and the triangle must be a right triangle. Otherwise not.

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