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III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB --> consider the case when AB is the diagonal of a square (the area is 25/2) and the case when AB is the diagonal of a rectangle with the sides equal to 3 and 4 (the area 12).

because, the diagonal AB = 5, you have assumed the other two sides to be 3 and 4 for the rectangle. this is what i am wanting to clarify.
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III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB --> consider the case when AB is the diagonal of a square (the area is 25/2) and the case when AB is the diagonal of a rectangle with the sides equal to 3 and 4 (the area 12).

because, the diagonal AB = 5, you have assumed the other two sides to be 3 and 4 for the rectangle. this is what i am wanting to clarify.

The question asks which of the following can have only one possible value?

III suggests that it's the area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB:

AB could be the diagonal of a square as well as it could be the diagonal of a rectangle with the sides equal to 3 and 4 (of course there are many other cases possible). Those two cases give different areas for a rectangle with diagonal of 5. Therefore, the area of a rectangular region with diagonal of 5 can have more than one value.

Hope it's clear.
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III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB --> consider the case when AB is the diagonal of a square (the area is 25/2) and the case when AB is the diagonal of a rectangle with the sides equal to 3 and 4 (the area 12).

because, the diagonal AB = 5, you have assumed the other two sides to be 3 and 4 for the rectangle. this is what i am wanting to clarify.

The question asks which of the following can have only one possible value?

III suggests that it's the area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB:

AB could be the diagonal of a square as well as it could be the diagonal of a rectangle with the sides equal to 3 and 4 (of course there are many other cases possible). Those two cases give different areas for a rectangle with diagonal of 5. Therefore, the area of a rectangular region with diagonal of 5 can have more than one value.

Hope it's clear.


yeah, exactly... that is what i wanted to confirm. your approach was one of the approaches of solving, just making sure that i am approaching problems like these in the right fashion. 6 days for the D-day, hence, a little freaked out. thanks for the confirmation bunuel, kudos to you. :)
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If points A and B are 5 units apart, which of the following can have only one possible value?

I. The area of a square region with side AB
II. The circumference of a circle passing through points A and B
III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB

A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and II only
E. I and III only

1. always true. so B, C are out immediately.
2. we can have multiple options...AB might be a chord, or AB might be the diameter. D is out.
we are left with A and E...pretty good odds, hah? :)
3. diagonal is AB -> since it's a rectangular region, we might have the rectangular formed by 2 triangles 3-4-5. since we are not 100% sure of that, we can't have a definite answer. E is out.

A is the answer.
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I automatically assumed AB was the diameter of the circle and hence thought II was right. Could get the others though
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