How do you use the midpoint distance or slope formulas to help classify polygon's on the coordinate plane

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Chapter11: Conics
Section11.1: Distance And Midpoint Formulas; Circles
Problem 11.7TI: Use the Midpoint Formula to find the midpoint of the line segments whose endpoints are (3,5) and...
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How do you use the midpoint distance or slope formulas to help classify polygon's on the coordinate plane
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The slope of two lines are equal when they are parallel to each other while if the product of two lines is -1, then, the lines are perpendicular to each other.

Let's do classification of quadrilaterals (polygon's with 4 sides):

The classification of polygon's can be done as follows:

(i) Check whether the opposite sides of polygon have equal slopes or unequal slopes. If two sides are parallel and other two are non-parallel, then it is a trapezium.

(ii) If no pair of opposite sides are parallel it is scalene quadrilateral.

(iii) If the opposite sides have equal slopes, then, opposite sides are parallel and it is a parallelogram. Also, the mid-points of diagonals will be same.

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