Can someone please help me with this question?

Do the points the coordinate pairs two comma eight, eight comma eight, eight comma zero, and two comma zero represent the vertices of a square or a rectangle? Explain.

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Can someone please help me with this question? 

Do the points the coordinate pairs two comma eight, eight comma eight, eight comma zero, and two comma zero represent the vertices of a square or a rectangle? Explain.

jdoe0001 · Answer

why not plot them and find out?

jdoe0001 · Answer

? who disappears?

jdoe0001 · Answer

sometimes openstudy site goes bonkers, and they connection becomes slacky
and I'ves seen a few users getting borked in the downtime

anonymous · Answer

how would I plot them?

jdoe0001 · Answer

on your side of the connection, all you see is that the site isn't coming up
but isn't your connection, so much as openstudy's site, they still have a few latency issues

anonymous · Answer

Can you see my responses?

jdoe0001 · Answer

x   y
(   2,  8  )
(   8,  8  )
...

jdoe0001 · Answer

yes I do, the points are given in the exercises with the understanding you've already covered this material, so you're expected to know what an ordered pair is

anonymous · Answer

you should find the slope for each two points and see if all the lines are perpendicular to each other..

anonymous · Answer

I understand what an ordered pair is. What I don't understand is how to solve the problem.

jdoe0001 · Answer

well, if you plot them on the cartesian plane, you'd see if they make a rectangle or a square

jdoe0001 · Answer

when they say "represent the vertices"   they really just mean "represent the CORNERS"

anonymous · Answer

okay that's right, you can do it geometrically by graphing, but how about doing it algebraicaly ?

anonymous · Answer

how would you solve it that way?

jdoe0001 · Answer

are you supposed to use slopes to check if it's a square or a rectangle?

jdoe0001 · Answer

if not, then you may just be doing something that doesn't apply to the exercise

anonymous · Answer

I think yes that's the only way to check if wether you have a right angles or not

anonymous · Answer

Idk but I think Ahmad1 is correct

anonymous · Answer

the only other possible way I am thinking about  is to find the distances between the points such that each opposite sides have the same length, but it's possible to get this thing sorry I do not know what is it called   |dw:1376088142205:dw|

anonymous · Answer

ohhh ok. Now I understand! Thanks everyone your help! :)

anonymous · Answer

you are welcome :)