SOLUTION: two right triangles have hypotenuses along the same line. Triangle L has a height of 27 and a base of b. Triangle m has a height of b and a base of 3. What is the slope of the line

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Question 1026257: two right triangles have hypotenuses along the same line. Triangle L has a height of 27 and a base of b. Triangle m has a height of b and a base of 3. What is the slope of the line?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, amalm06:
Answer by ikleyn(52770)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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two right triangles have hypotenuses along the same line. Triangle L has a height of 27 and a base of b. Triangle m has a height of b and a base of 3. What is the slope of the line?
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This condition is very ambiguous.


1. The condition doesn't says in the first phrase that the line and the triangles are in a coordinate plane. 

2. One can call ANY of the two legs of an right-angled triangle as a base. Then the other leg will be "the height".

3. Are the triangles located in one half-plane or in different half-planes?
   The solution and the result depends on it.

There is no sense to solve so badly formulated problem. 
It doen't make sense.

Sorry.

Answer by amalm06(224)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!






The slope of the line is 3 (Answer)
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