SOLUTION: Amy is helping plan her school's new basketball court. The west edge of the basketball court is located on the line y = −4x. The east edge cannot intersect with the west edge. On

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Question 1142235: Amy is helping plan her school's new basketball court. The west edge of the basketball court is located on the line y = −4x. The east edge cannot intersect with the west edge. On which line could the east edge be located?
Answer by ikleyn(52780)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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My common sense tells me that east edge must be parallel to west edge.


Hence, east edge has an equation  y = -4x + c,  where "c" is some constant value.


That is all I can say based on the given condition.


I suspect that the essential part of the condition is lost in this post.


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