MATLAB programme for checking if a given point (x, y) is within the square with a bottom left corner at (p, q) and side s. The input arguments are x, y, p, q and s, and the output is either true (in the square) or false (not in the square).

Write a MATLAB programme for checking if a given point (x, y) is within the square with a bottom left corner at (p, q) and side s. The input arguments are x, y, p, q and s, and the output is either true (the point is in the square) or false (the point is not in the square).

Find the answer for: x = 15, y = 14, p = 13, q = 2, s = 11.

[Steven Lord]

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Answer 1

[Nabil Farah]

this might help

function result= IsWithinSquare()

%%The input arguments are x, y, p, q and s, and the output is either true (the point is in the square) or false (the point is not in the square).

% x = 15;
% y = 14;
% p = 13;
% q = 2;
% s = 11;
clc, close, clear
x = input ('the first point (x) = ');
y = input ('the second point(y) = ');
p = input ('bottom left corner point (p) = ');
q = input ('bottom left corner point (q) = ');
s = input ('the side (s) = ');
% if the (x) coordinate lies within bottom_left (p) and
% bottom_left(p)+side (S) 
%and y coordinate lies within bottom_left(q) and bottom_left(q)+side(S) then the point (x,y) is inside the
% square and set result to true else set result to false
% The edges/corners are treated as part of the square.
if(((x >= p) && (x <= (x+s))) && (((y >=q) && y <= (q + s))))
result = true;
% disp('the point ',x,y,'is  in the square')
else
result = false;

disp(' the point(x,y)is not in the square')
end

Answer 2

[Ameer Hamza]

If this is not a homework question, then directly use inpolygon(): https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/inpolygon.html. Otherwise, you will need to develop the logical steps to solve this problem.