SOLUTION: What is the acute angle that is formed by the line y - 1/4 x - 2 = 0 and the x-axis?
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Question 979152: What is the acute angle that is formed by the line y - 1/4 x - 2 = 0 and the x-axis?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Change to slope-intercept form:
find two points that lie on a line and graph a line:
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You can see a triangle on you graph, formed by your line, and the and axes. The line crosses the axis at , and the at .
The length along the axis is to the angle you want, the line along is .
So you can say
(the signs don't matter once you've found your triangle) so
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