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Chapter 1.4 Homework Answer: Solution

This document contains solutions to homework exercises involving geometry concepts like the distance formula, properties of triangles, equations of circles and lines, graphing, perpendicular lines, windows for graphing, lattice points, and Pythagorean triples. The exercises cover topics like classifying triangles, writing equations of circles, finding intercepts and radii of circles and lines from equations, graphing lines and circles using different windows, finding the point of intersection of perpendicular lines, identifying appropriate windows for graphing, finding lattice points, and generating Pythagorean triples.

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Chapter 1.4 Homework Answer: Solution

This document contains solutions to homework exercises involving geometry concepts like the distance formula, properties of triangles, equations of circles and lines, graphing, perpendicular lines, windows for graphing, lattice points, and Pythagorean triples. The exercises cover topics like classifying triangles, writing equations of circles, finding intercepts and radii of circles and lines from equations, graphing lines and circles using different windows, finding the point of intersection of perpendicular lines, identifying appropriate windows for graphing, finding lattice points, and generating Pythagorean triples.

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Chapter 1.

4 Homework Answer

Exercises 1 Applying Distance Formula (a) Draw a diagram showing points A and B and
find the distance between them. (b) Find the coordinates of the midpoint M of the line segment
. (c) Verify that .
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Exercises 2 Special Triangles Determine whether the three points are vertices of a right
triangle, an equilateral triangle, an isosceles triangle, or none of these. (Hint: For a right
triangle, use the Pythagorean theorem.)
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Exercises 3-4 Equation of a Circle Write an equation for the circle that satisfies the given
conditions. First draw a diagram showing the circle. Give the result in expanded form.
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Exercises 5–8 Graph of Equation (a) Identify the graph of the equation as a line or a circle.
(b) For a line, find the coordinates of the intercept points. For a circle, find the radius and the
coordinates of the center. (c) Sketch the graph.
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Exercises 9-10 Windows The graphs of the given equations are perpendicular lines. Draw
the graphs. Experiment with windows of different sizes until you get lines that appear to be
perpendicular. Indicate the window size you use. Use to find the point of intersection of
the lines (one decimal place).
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Exercises 11 Viewing Windows In order to draw a graph of the equation that will show the
x- and y-intercept points, which window would you use? Try each one.
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Exercises 12 Find all lattice points in Quadrant I on the graph of the equation.
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Exercises 13 Pythagorean Triples If the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle are
integers, then the triplet of numbers is called a Pythagorean triple. For example, a = 3, b = 4,
and so , and [3, 4, 5] is a Pythagorean triple. We illustrate an interesting
way to find Pythagorean triples:

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