Thread: Parallelogram Question

ABC has vertices of A(3,2,-5) B(4,-1,7) C(-8,3,-6)

Determine the coordinates of D such that ABCD is a parallelogram

Is the parallelogram a rectangle? Justify your answer.

Hello,

Originally Posted by peon123

ABC has vertices of A(3,2,-5) B(4,-1,7) C(-8,3,-6)

Determine the coordinates of D such that ABCD is a parallelogram

Is the parallelogram a rectangle? Justify your answer.

that should give you the coordinates of D.

As to know whether it's a rectangle or not... you should know that a rectangle is a parallelogram with a right angle.
So check if the scalar product between and is 0.


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(coordinates of vector)