SOLUTION: 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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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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"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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