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by nadontheway » Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:02 am
Why is A not sufficient??

From A we know that ACD is isoceles right triangle with hypothenuse AD.
Angle CAD is 45° and angle ACD is 90° so CDA must be 45°.
CD should be 5/Sqroot2.
And BD should be 2*5/Sqroot2
Why am i wrong?

Although the statement A doesn't say isoceles, you can deduce it thanks to the statement itself.
The perpendicular cuts the right triangle into two triangles creating a right angle (ACD) and splitting the right triangle ABD in two (45°). So you can deduce that angle ADC is 45°.
So A should be sufficient. Am I clear?


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by codesnooker » Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:24 am
nadontheway wrote:Why is A not sufficient??

From A we know that ACD is isoceles right triangle with hypothenuse AD.
Angle CAD is 45° and angle ACD is 90° so CDA must be 45°.
CD should be 5/Sqroot2.
And BD should be 2*5/Sqroot2
Why am i wrong?

Although the statement A doesn't say isoceles, you can deduce it thanks to the statement itself.
The perpendicular cuts the right triangle into two triangles creating a right angle (ACD) and splitting the right triangle ABD in two (45°). So you can deduce that angle ADC is 45°.
So A should be sufficient. Am I clear?


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There is no such theorem. You are trying to predict the angle according to the given figure. See I can read your mind.

The figure is totally wrong. Get a rule and a D, try to make a figure having angles B (30 degree), D (60 degree) and A (90 degree).

Then try to draw the perpendicular from A t on BD. You will get your answer.

PS: You are trying to apply bisect theorem which is not fit over here.

Let me know if you still have any confusion.
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by nadontheway » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:47 pm
Thanks a lot codesnooker. I really appreciate.

My confusion is based on the definition of Perpendicular lines itself: "Perpendicular lines form right angles". Based on that information, I concluded that angle C must be 90°.

What do you think?
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by codesnooker » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:00 am
nadontheway wrote:Thanks a lot codesnooker. I really appreciate.

My confusion is based on the definition of Perpendicular lines itself: "Perpendicular lines form right angles". Based on that information, I concluded that angle C must be 90°.

What do you think?
Did you try to sketch the figure that I mentioned in my earlier post on this topic.

The angle C will be equal to 90 degree only when A and D are equal to 45 degree. However that is not necessary at all. The relation between A and D is

A + D = 90 degree

So A and D could be anything, however their sum should be always equal to 90 degree.

Sketch the figure and you can derive it yourself.
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by nadontheway » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:17 am
I sketch the figure you mentioned in your earlier post only conceptually (I don't have a D;)).
I see that A+D= 90°.
With the perpendicular AC, A can be 45° or 30° and D can be 45° or 60° or anything else as long as A+D=90°. So at this stage we don't know if ACD is isoceles triangles or equilateral triangle or someting else. I can see that now. So A is not sufficient to determine BD.

But because perpendicular lines form right angles C must be 90° whatever angle A and D measure. Is that correct?
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by codesnooker » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:09 am
nadontheway wrote: But because perpendicular lines form right angles C must be 90° whatever angle A and D measure. Is that correct?
Of course, that's what PERPENDICULAR termed for.
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by nadontheway » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:12 am
THANKS I see where my mistake is now.
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by nadontheway » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:20 am
I can't believe how easy this problem is. I really need to focus and handle geometry concepts...
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by anjaligeorge1 » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:08 am
Is the OA E ?
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by nadontheway » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:16 am
The correct answer is C

Using statements 1 and 2, we know that AC is the perpendicular bisector of BD. This means that triangle BAD is an isosceles triangle so side AB must have a length of 5 (the same length as side AD).
We also know that angle BAD is a right angle, so side BD is the hypotenuse of right isosceles triangle BAD.
If each leg of the triangle is 5, the hypotenuse (using the Pythagorean theorem) must be 5sqrt2.
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