PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS MATH PROBLEM
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Let's call this line y=mx+C, whereby 'm' will be its gradient and 'C' will be its constant.
If this line is parallel to the line you've just mentioned, it will have a gradient 2/3. We know this, because when we re-arrange the equation you've given us, we get...
So, at the moment, our parallel line looks like this...
y=(2/3)*x + C
However, you mentioned that this line passes through the point Q(1, -2). If this is the case, for the line (almost complete) above, when x=1, y=-2. With this information, we can figure out the constant of the line we want to find.
-2=(2/3)*(1) + C
Therefore:
C = - 2 - (2/3)
C = - 6/3 - 2/3
C = - 8/3
This means that the line you are looking for is:
y=(2/3)*x - (8/3)
Let's find out if this is truly the case with a handy graphing app... Well, it turns out that I'm correct.
If this line is parallel to the line you've just mentioned, it will have a gradient 2/3. We know this, because when we re-arrange the equation you've given us, we get...
So, at the moment, our parallel line looks like this...
y=(2/3)*x + C
However, you mentioned that this line passes through the point Q(1, -2). If this is the case, for the line (almost complete) above, when x=1, y=-2. With this information, we can figure out the constant of the line we want to find.
-2=(2/3)*(1) + C
Therefore:
C = - 2 - (2/3)
C = - 6/3 - 2/3
C = - 8/3
This means that the line you are looking for is:
y=(2/3)*x - (8/3)
Let's find out if this is truly the case with a handy graphing app... Well, it turns out that I'm correct.
Answer:
The three angles of the triangle given above are 23, 73 and 84 correct to the nearest degree. The concept of dot product under vectors was applied in solving this problem. The three positions forming the triangle were taken as positions vectors. The Dot product also known as scalar product is a very good way of finding the angle between two vectors. ( in this case the sides of the triangle given above). Below is a picture of the step by step procedure of the solution.
Step-by-step explanation:
The first thing to do is to treat the given positions in space as position vectors which gives us room to perform vector manipulations on them. Next we calculate the magnitude of the position vector which is the square root of the sun of the square of the positions of the vectors along the three respective axes). Then we calculate the dot product. After this is calculated the angle can then be found easily using formula for the dot product.
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