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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by a guilty triangle It's really

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wishing it hadn't stood up so fast All right a

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right triangle with sides labeled l lemon and has shown

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below if s l stands for the slope of l

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and s M stands for the slope of m and

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s and stands for the slope of end in which

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of the following statements must be true and hear the

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potential answers Seven his life Okay so what's this question

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asking Well we're given a graph featuring a triangle that

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looks badly in need of its morning cup of coffee

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way And we need to figure out what would happen

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if we multiplied the slopes of the three sides of

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the triangle together They're no given numbers here Missed a

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few letters So what gives Well let's look at the

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other information that we are giving problems Says this is

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a right triangle And yet there's a little right triangle

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symbols So we know the two legs of the triangle

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side in inside em are perpendicular ninety degrees member Okay

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so what do we know about perpendicular lines Slope wise

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Well hopefully remember that the slopes of the perpendicular lines

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are always negative Reciprocal sze in other words multiply the

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slopes of any two perpendicular lines and you get negative

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one like if the slopes or three and negative a

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third toe All three terms negative Third is negative one

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and it'll be the same with any too negative reciprocal

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ls he decide to plug in there lose us with

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just negative one time The last side side l were

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looking over The answer choices It makes sense that sea

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would work because negative onetime side l will always equal

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negative side L so yeah we've got her answer and

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our triangle friend has finally got his coffee All is 00:01:54.633 --> [endTime] right in the world

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