The referenced figure is below. 

The triangle formed is a right triangle whose hypotenuse is the segment with the endpoints  and . The center of the circle that circumscribes a right triangle is the midpoint of its hypotenuse, so the midpoint formula 

can be applied, setting :

The midpoint of the hypotenuse, and, consequently, the center of the circumscribed circle, is the point with coordinates .

Another way of viewing this problem is to note that the three given vertices form a triangle  whose sides' perpendicular bisectors intersect at the points , , and . However, the three perpendicular bisectors of the sides of any triangle always intersect at a common point. The correct response is that , , and  are the same point.

The length of the horizontal leg of the triangle is the distance from the origin  to , which is 8.

The area of a right triangle is half the product of the lengths of its legs  and , so, setting  and  and solving for :

Therefore, the length of the vertical leg is 10, and, since the -intercept of the line containing the hypotenuse is on the positive -axis, this intercept is . The slope of a line with intercepts  is 

, 

so, setting  and :

Set  and  in the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line, 

;

the line has equation

The -coordinate  of the point on the line with -coordinate 2 can be found using substitution; setting ::

Mrs. Smith's 8th grade class had a quiz last week. The graph below depicts the number of questions students got incorrect on their quiz and their corresponding quiz grade. In other words, the graph in this particular question is a dot plot and the question asks to find a correlation if one exists.

Recall that a correlation is a trend seen in the data. Graphically, trends can be either:

I. Positive 

II. Negative

III. Constant

IV. No trend

For a trend to be positive the x and y variable both increase. A trend is negative when the y variable (dependent variable) decreases as the x variable (independent variable) increases. A constant trend occurs when the y variable stays the same as the x variable increases. No trend exists when the data appears to be scattered with no association between the x and y variables.

Examining the graph given it is seen that the x variable is the number of questions missed and the y variable is the overall score on the quiz. It is seen that as the number of questions missed increases, the overall score on the quiz decreases. This describes  a negative trend.

In other words, the graph depicts a negative correlation.

Given the graph of record sales, to find the fraction of records that were sold in 2004 to 2010 first identify the record sales in 2004 and the record sales in 2010.

Examining the graph,

Record sales in 2004:14 million

Record sales in 2010: 13 million

From here, to find the fraction of records sold during this time period, use the following formula.

Using the distance formula, calculate the distance from each of these points to the origin, (0, 0). While each answer choice has coordinates that add up to seven, (-1, 8) is the coordinate pair that produces the largest distance, namely , or approximately 8.06.

On the coordinate plane, a point with a negative -coordinate and a positive -coordinate lies in the upper left quadrant—Quadrant II.

The slope of the line is  and the y-intercept is .

The equation of the line is . 

This is the parent graph of . Since the graph in question is negative, then we flip the quadrants in which it will approach infinity. So the graph of  will start in quadrant 2 and end in 4. 

It is necessary to find the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle, each of which is the intersection of two of the three lines.

The intersection of the lines of the equations  and  can be found by noting that, by substituting   for  in the latter equation, , making the point of intersection .

The intersection of the lines of the equations  and  can be found by substituting   for  in the latter equation and solving for :

This point of intersection is .

The intersection of the lines of the equations  and  can be found by substituting   for  in the latter equation and solving for :

Since , , and this point of intersection is .

The lines in question are graphed below, and the triangle they bound is shaded:

We can take the horizontal side as the base of the triangle; its length is the difference of the -coordinates:

The height is the vertical distance from this side to the opposite side, which is the difference of the -coordinates:

The area is half their product: