6. As shown in Figure 1, on a rectangular grid paper, the vertices of each small square are called lattice points. Then the number of isosceles right triangles with lattice points as vertices is:
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Solution
6.D.
The length of line segments with grid points as vertices can take 8 values: , . The isosceles right triangles formed by these line segments can be classified into 4 cases based on their side lengths:
Below, we count the triangles by classifying them according to the length of the hypotenuse.
(1) When the hypotenuse is , the hypotenuse must be the diagonal of a small square. There are 12 such line segments, and each such line segment corresponds to two isosceles right triangles, totaling .
(2) When the hypotenuse is 2, there are 10 line segments of length 2 in the figure, 6 of which are on the perimeter of a rectangle, each corresponding to one isosceles right triangle; the other 4 are inside the rectangle, each corresponding to two isosceles right triangles. In total, there are .
(3) When the hypotenuse is , the hypotenuse must be the diagonal of a square. There are 4 such line segments, each corresponding to two isosceles right triangles, totaling .
(4) When the hypotenuse is , there are 4 such line segments, each corresponding to one isosceles right triangle, totaling 4.
Therefore, the number of isosceles right triangles with grid points as vertices is .