let ABCD be a rhombus. Prove that the diagonals AC and BD are perpendicular on each other. You may use the Theorem on Parallelograms without proving it
To prove that a line is perpendicular, the two slopes should be opposite reciprocals. What is the rest of the given information?
i.e. The slopes are -1/2 an 2, therefore they are perpendicular. Because 2/1 = 2 which is OPPOSITE and a RECIPROCAL. As in it is negative if it is positive (or vice versa) and it is reversed (i.e. 1/3 and 3/1 are reverse reciprocals).
This is just an example though.
if you do not know the slopes then find them with eh slope formula and determine if they are perpendicular using the example I just gave. \[Slope Formula = \frac{ y _2 - y _1 }{ x _2 - x _1 }\]
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There are no numbers for this because this is just a proof...that's all the info given
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