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On a coordinate plane, the coordinates of vertices R and T for ...brainly.com › Middle School › Mathematics 1 answer Jun 3, 2018 - On a coordinate plane, the coordinates of vertices R and T for a polygon are R(−6, 2) and T(5, 2). What is the length of Side RT of the polygon?

Answer 1

Given: The coordinates of vertices R and T are R(−6, 2) and T(5, 2).

To find: What is the length of Side RT of the polygon?

Solution:

• Now we have given the points R(−6, 2) and T(5, 2), from this we can conclude that both the points are on the same y - axis coordinate that is 2.

• So to find distance between them we can ignore the y coordinate and find the distance.

• Subtracting the x-axis coordinate of R by the x-axis coordinate of T, we get the distance between the points.

• So the distance is:

                -6 -5 = -11.

• Now the answer has a negative sign, which can be ignored as the distance is considered to be positive always.
• So distance is 11 cm.

Answer:

            The length of side RT of the polygon is 11 cm.