Eddie is setting up the locations of the corners of a 16-foot by 30-foot rectangular deck he is going to build in his backyard. To make sure he has a perfect rectangle, he checks to make sure the diagonals are the same. What should the length of each diagonal be?

step-by-step explanation:

question says to graph a triangle (xyz) and reflect it over the line y=x to create triangle x'y'z'.

we know that line y=x has both coordinates equal like (1,1), (5,5) etc so we can easily graph that reflecting line.

description of transformation:

we can see that x and y coordinate gets switched after transformation like (2,8) changed to (8,2)

what do you notice about the two line segments you drew:

we see that line segments xp and x'p are of same length and perpendicular to the reflecting line y=x.

do you think you would see the same characteristic if you drew the line segment connecting y with the reflecting line and then y' with the reflecting line? :

yes, i would see the same characteristic if you drew the line segment connecting y with the reflecting line and then y' with the reflecting line.

how do you know? :

by measuring the length of yk and y'k.

discriminant = 4^2-4(-)\\=16-8\\=8

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