Equilateral triangle on the GMAT is code for 30:60:90 right triangle so that once we get one side we can get the height. Also, we know that in an equilateral triangle all sides are equal.

Therefore all we need it to find one side of the triangle and we can answer this question.

From your figure and statements:

1) - knowing one set of coordinates will not give you a side of the triangle - therefore you can't solve and are left with BCE as answer choices

2) from this we can tell that the height of the triangle is 6 (this distance from the y-axis to C) and because we can get the height we can use the 30:60:90 ratio to find each of the other sides and thus the Base. Therefore this answer is sufficient and the answer is B.

Uhmmmm... IMHO it should be (B)

Statement 2 provide us with "X sqrt(3)" which is 6 [the height] and from that we can determine that X = 6/sqrt(3)[the base].

So we have the base and the height of a 30:60:90 triangle, we can determine its Area = b*h/2 -> (6/sqrt(3) * 6)/2 = 18/sqrt(3)

If we multiple the area of the 30:60:90 triangle by 2 then we get the full equilateral triangle 2 * 18/sqrt(3) = 36/sqrt(3)


What's the OA?

I appologize, you are exactly correct. if you can find the height of at 30:60:90 you can solve for all of the sides of the equilateral. I will edit my response and thanks for pointing out my flaw.

Thank you both of you..