Geometry / Counting .. Please help

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Geometry / Counting .. Please help

by praveen_gmat » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:53 am
A certain square is to be drawn on a coordinate plane. One of the vertices must be on the origin, and the square is to have an area of 100. If all coordinates of the vertices must be integers, how many different ways can this square be drawn?

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by Makushr1 » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:11 pm
praveen_gmat wrote:A certain square is to be drawn on a coordinate plane. One of the vertices must be on the origin, and the square is to have an area of 100. If all coordinates of the vertices must be integers, how many different ways can this square be drawn?

I have no clue how to solve this ..
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