Parallelism !!!!!

Geometry Level 3

What is the distance between the lines 3 x + 4 y = 9 3x+4y=9 and 6 x + 8 y = 15 6x+8y=15 ?????

3 10 \frac{3}{10} 2 \sqrt{2} 3 3 2 2 3 5 \frac{3}{5} 1 1 0 0 3 \sqrt{3}

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2 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Apr 18, 2015

It is given that:

{ 3 x + 4 y = 9 y = 3 4 x + 9 4 . . . ( 1 ) 6 x + 8 y = 15 y = 3 4 x + 15 8 . . . ( 2 ) \begin{cases} 3x+4y = 9 & \Rightarrow y = - \frac{3}{4} x + \frac{9}{4} &...(1) \\ 6x + 8y = 15 & \Rightarrow y = - \frac{3}{4} x + \frac{15}{8} &...(2) \end{cases}

Therefore, the y-axis intercepts of Line 1 and Line 2 are A ( 0 , 9 4 ) A(0,\frac{9}{4}) and B ( 0 , 15 8 ) B(0,\frac{15}{8}) respectively. Let the perpendicular from B B to Line 1 to meet at C C , then we note that A B C = θ \angle ABC = \theta is same as the angle the two parallel lines make with x-axis. Therefore, tan θ = 3 4 \tan{\theta} = \frac{3}{4} and A B C \triangle ABC is a Pythagorean 3 3 - 4 4 - 5 5 triangle.

Therefore, the distance between the two lines:

B C = 4 5 × A C = 4 5 ( 9 4 15 8 ) = 4 5 × 3 8 = 3 10 BC = \frac{4}{5} \times AC = \frac {4}{5}(\frac{9}{4} - \frac{15}{8} ) = \frac{4}{5}\times \frac{3}{8} = \boxed{\frac{3}{10}}

Refaat M. Sayed
Apr 18, 2015

The tangent for the first line = -3/4 . and the second line tangent = -3/4 . so the two lines are parallel . the distance between them = (ax+by+c)/ (squrt(a^2+b^2)). By assume the point (1/3 , 2) lies on the line 3x+4y=9 . then by using this point and the second line equation in the distance equation we get that . d=(6×(1÷3)+8×2-15)/(squrt(6^2+8^2))= 3/10

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