course MTH 151
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21:17:14 `q001. . There are five questions in this set. Draw four points in a square pattern (i.e., if the points were properly connected, they should form a square). From each of the points, draw a straight line to each of the other points. How many lines did you draw?
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RESPONSE --> 4
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21:25:59 Each corner of the square will connected to each of the other three corners, so from each corner you would have drawn three lines. Since there are four corners, had you followed the instructions precisely you would have drawn 4 * 3 = 12 lines. However each of these lines will be identical with another line you would have drawn, since for any two corners you would be drawing a line from the first to the second then another overlapping line from the second to the first. Therefore you might have said that there are 6 lines.
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RESPONSE --> I am not sure I understood this problem. I drew out what I think you are explaining and got a picture of a squre with 2 diagonals splitting it.
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21:26:09 `q002. How many triangles are there in the figure you drew?
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RESPONSE --> There are 4.
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21:27:09 You should have a total of 8 triangles. The diagonals divide the square up into 4 small triangles. Each diagonal also divides the square into 2 larger triangles. Since there are 2 diagonals there are 4 larger triangles. The 4 small triangles and the 4 larger triangles total 8 triangles.
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RESPONSE --> I see what you are saying.
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21:35:45 `q003. The lines you drew should form a square with its two diagonals. Label the corners of the square A, B, C and D, going in order around the square, and label the center where the diagonals cross E. Now list all possible combinations of 3 of the letters A, B, C, D, E (note: combinations don't care about order, so A D E is the same as D A E or E A D or any other combination of these same three letters, so list each possible combination only once. That is, if you list for example ADE you won't list DAE).
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RESPONSE --> I came up with the 10 following: ABC ACD ADE ACE ABD ABE BDE BCD BCE CDE
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21:36:13 The easiest way to list these sequences is alphabetically: ABC, ABD, ABE all start with AB; then ACD and ACE start with AC and ADE starts with AD. This is a list of all possible combinations containing A. We next list all possible remaining combinations containing B: BCD, BCE and BDE. Then we write down CDE, the only remaining combination containing C. We thus have the 10 combinations ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE.
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RESPONSE --> RIGHT
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21:41:44 `q004. Of the 10 combinations ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE, which form triangles on your figure?
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RESPONSE --> They all are triangles in the figure. I first listed them as all except those including letter E because E is a midpoint, hence the line isn't completed and neither is the triangle. However, in the figure already drawn, looking at it gives triangles from all points.
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21:42:37 ABC forms a large triangle from A to B to C and back to A. The same is true of ABD, ACD and BCD. These are the large triangles in the figure. ACE and BDE form straight lines, not triangles. ABE, ADE, BCE and CDE form small triangles. Thus of the 10 possible combinations of labeled points, we find the 4 large triangles and the 4 small triangles we saw earlier, in addition to 2 straight lines which do not form triangles. Since any triangle in the figure must be labeled by three of the five points A, B, C, D, E, we see that these are the only triangles that can be formed.
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RESPONSE --> Of course, I left out the straight lines. I see that.
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21:45:21 `q005. Sketch the same figure as before, but without the line segment from A to B. Now how may triangles are there?
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RESPONSE --> I am probably missing something here but I think there are 3 small and 2 large for a total of 5.
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21:46:09 Any possible triangle must still come from the list ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE. We again see that ACE and BDE form straight lines so do not count as triangles. Now ABC, ABD and ABE do not form triangles because the line segment AB is now missing. This leaves us the five triangles ACD, ADE, BCE, BCE and CDE.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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