2017 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 8
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Points and are vertices of with . The altitude from meets the opposite side at . What are the coordinates of point ?
Solution 1
Since , then is isosceles, so . Therefore, the coordinates of are .
Solution 2
Calculating the equation of the line running between points and , . The only coordinate of that is also on this line is .
Solution 3
Similar to the first solution, because the triangle is isosceles, then the line drawn in the middle separates the triangle into two smaller congruent triangles. To get from to , we go to the right and up . Then to get to point from point , we go to the right and up , getting us the coordinates . ~
Solution 4
As stated in solution 1, the triangle is isosceles.
This means that is the midpoint of and . So and so . Similarly for , we have and so . So our final answer is .
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