SOLUTION: Tenille and Jana were asked to determine if a triangle on a coordinate plane is a right triangle. Tenille said that she was going to check the slopes of the two shorter sides to se

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Question 1137452: Tenille and Jana were asked to determine if a triangle on a coordinate plane is a right triangle. Tenille said that she was going to check the slopes of the two shorter sides to see if they were perpendicular. Jana said that she
was going to use the distance formula and use the converse of the Pythagorean theorem. Which student is correct?
im guessing Jana would be correct so she can have the distance between the sides and at the same time can also figure out if they are perpendicular or not.
Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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1.   They both are correct.

2.   Do not use this combination of words  "the distance between the sides",  when you talk about a triangle.