Please answer this question for me. Please show all your work.

9514 1404 393

  acute scalene triangle

Step-by-step explanation:

The largest angle is acute, and all sides are different lengths. The triangle is an acute scalene triangle.

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The magnitudes of the coordinate differences are ...

  WX = (7, 5), XY = (2, 7), WY = (9, 2)

The two sides that are closest in length are ...

  WX = √(49+25) = √74

  WY = √(81 +4) = √85

Obviously, these are different lengths.

You can get a clue by comparing the numbers whose squares you are adding:

  7^2 +5^2 > 7^2 +2^2 . . . . . WX > XY

  9^2 +2^2 > 7^2 +2^2 . . . . WY > XY

so, the only question is relation between WX and WY. We note that the length of WX is less than one of the coordinate differences of WY, so we know WY is the longest. (√74 < 9)

We can tell from the graph that angle X (opposite longest side WY) is an acute angle, so the triangle is acute.