SOLUTION: What is the angle between the horizontal (x) axis and the line containing the points (2,8) and (4,9)?

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Question 567630: What is the angle between the horizontal (x) axis and the line containing the points (2,8) and (4,9)?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20081)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is the angle between the horizontal (x) axis and the line containing the points (2,8) and (4,9)?


We observe that the angle q that the green line makes with the 
x-axis is the same size angle as the angle marked q in the little right
triangle up where the two given points are.

In that little right triangle we see that the opposite side of q is 
1 unit long and the adjacent side to q is 2 units long, 
so we use the trig function that involves opposite and adjacent:

                 tan(q) = 
                 tan(q) =   

Use the inverse tangent fuction on the calculator and get

                 q = 26.56505118° = 26°33'54"

I hope you observed that the tangent of that angle q is the slope
of the green line.
                                                      
Edwin


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