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A point in a square (Posted on 2004-03-17)

Given a square ABCD, let P be such that AP=1, BP=2 and CP=3.

* What is the length of DP?
* What is the angle APB?

See The Solution Submitted by Federico Kereki

Rating: 3.1250 (8 votes)

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re: Half a solution

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(In reply to Half a solution by e.g.)

I'll agree with that. I did it another way, again using Pythag's Thm 4 times to get that length(DP) = SQRT(6).
As for the angle...yeah

Posted by Barrett Hasseldine on 2004-03-17 20:53:19

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