Question

Peter is placing a rectangle in the coordinate plane. He knows that the shorter side of the rectangle is one-third the length of the longer side. He places the longer side on the x-axis.

What coordinates should he assign to the top-left vertex of the rectangle?

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Rectangle in the coordinate plane with vertices at begin ordered pair 0 comma 0 end ordered pair, begin ordered pair 3 a comma 0 end ordered pair and begin ordered pair question mark comma question mark in the upper left.

Answer 1

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