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geometry senior

Problem

If , , and are the four vertices of parallelogram , what are the coordinates of point ?
Solution
We know where points , , and are, and we know that the shape is a parallelogram, so we know that the differences in the x-values and y-values between and must be the same as the differences in x-values and y-values between and .

The solution is , which keeps the vertices in alphabetical order, as shown in the first figure. Two other parallelograms are shown in figures 2 and 3 (where we number them from left to right), but they are not solutions because the points aren't in the correct order. They would be parallelograms and , respectively.
Final answer
(-5, -4)