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ACT Math: Coordinate Geometry Drill 3, Problem 5. What is the slope of a line parallel to one with the given equation?
- Coordinate Geometry / Graphs of points, lines, polynomials, and circles
- Coordinate Geometry / Parallel and perpendicular lines
- Product Type / ACT Math
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Coordinate Geometry / Slope
Transcript
- 00:02
For a good time, solve this shmoopy question...
- 00:05
What is the slope of a line parallel to Y equals 3/4 X plus 1?
- 00:10
And here are your options...
- 00:13
Okay, the line they give us is
- 00:16
already in the Y equals MX plus B format
Full Transcript
- 00:20
So we just need to identify the M here
- 00:24
and its this thing... 3/4. Parallel lines
- 00:27
all have the same slope so anything of slope 3/4
- 00:31
will be parallel to anything else with slope of 3/4.
- 00:35
Looks like C is our answer.
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