In the standard coordinate plane, a line is defined by the equation . A second line passes through the origin and intersects the first line at a point where . What is the slope of this second line?
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The slope of the second line is (or ).
The intersection point has an -coordinate of . Substituting this into gives , which simplifies to , or . Thus, the intersection point is . The second line passes through and . Using the slope formula, the slope is .
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Finding the slope of a line given two points on the coordinate plane, where one point is determined by the intersection of two linear paths.
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Since the second line passes through the origin , its equation is of the form , where is the slope. At the intersection point , we have . We can substitute this directly into the first line's equation: .
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