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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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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Use the distance formula on each of three pairs of vertices:
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
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