A triangle, ABC, has coordinates A (-2, 0), B (-2, 5) and C (-4, 0). What is the length of the shortest side?
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Answer: 2 units.
Step-by-step explanation: When you graph the points given, it gives you this shape in the image below. The hypotenuse (longest side of triangle) is found by doing the following:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where a and b are the legs (the other sides of the triangle) and c is the hypotenuse.
5^2 + 2^2 = 29.
√ 29 ≈ 5.38, and that is the length of the hypotenuse.
The shortest side is the bottom side, which is 2 units. Therefore, that is your answer.
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