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Since the trapezoid is isosceles, the legs are congruent and the base angles are congruent. That makes the two distances marked d equal.

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What is distance d?

OpenStudy (sbuck98):

C?

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Look at the coordinates of the upper left vertex, (a, b). You see where coordinate a is on the x-axis?

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The distance of a coordinate point and the origin is simply the absolute value of the coordinate. On the x-axis, a is simply a units from the origin, so distance d is simply a.

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