Honors Geometry Companion Book, Volume 1

3.2.4 Slopes of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines (continued) Example 4 Geometry Application In Example 4, Prof. Burger finds the slope of two sides of a triangle, and then uses those slopes to show that the triangle is a right triangle. Note that a right triangle must contain a right angle, so two sides of a right triangle must be perpendicular.

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