Other Lines - GRE Quantitative Reasoning

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Question

For the line

$y=\frac{1}{3}x-7$

Which one of these coordinates can be found on the line?

Answer

To test the coordinates, plug the x-coordinate into the line equation and solve for y.

y = 1/3x -7

Test (3,-6)

y = 1/3(3) – 7 = 1 – 7 = -6 YES!

Test (3,7)

y = 1/3(3) – 7 = 1 – 7 = -6 NO

Test (6,-12)

y = 1/3(6) – 7 = 2 – 7 = -5 NO

Test (6,5)

y = 1/3(6) – 7 = 2 – 7 = -5 NO

Test (9,5)

y = 1/3(9) – 7 = 3 – 7 = -4 NO

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Consider the lines described by the following two equations:

4y = 3x2

3y = 4x2

Find the vertical distance between the two lines at the points where x = 6.

Answer

Since the vertical coordinates of each point are given by y, solve each equation for y and plug in 6 for x, as follows:

Taking the difference of the resulting y -values give the vertical distance between the points (6,27) and (6,48), which is 21.

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Solve the following system of equations:

–2x + 3y = 10

2x + 5y = 6

Answer

Since we have –2x and +2x in the equations, it makes sense to add the equations together to give 8y = 16 yielding y = 2. Then we substitute y = 2 into one of the original equations to get x = –2. So the solution to the system of equations is (–2, 2)

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Find the point where the line y = .25(x – 20) + 12 crosses the x-axis.

Answer

When the line crosses the x-axis, the y-coordinate is 0. Substitute 0 into the equation for y and solve for x.

.25(x – 20) + 12 = 0

.25_x_ – 5 = –12

.25_x_ = –7

x = –28

The answer is the point (–28,0).

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Determine the greater quantity:

or

Answer

$\dpi{100} \small BD+AC$ is the length of the line, except that $\dpi{100} \small BC$ is double counted. By subtracting $\dpi{100} \small BC$ , we get the length of the line, or $\dpi{100} \small AD$ .

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Which of the following sets of coordinates are on the line $y=3x-4$ ?

Answer

$(2,2)$ when plugged in for $y$ and $x$ make the linear equation true, therefore those coordinates fall on that line.

$y=3x-4$

Because this equation is true, the point must lie on the line. The other given answer choices do not result in true equalities.

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Which of the following points can be found on the line $\small y=3x+2$ ?

Answer

We are looking for an ordered pair that makes the given equation true. To solve, plug in the various answer choices to find the true equality.

Because this equality is true, we can conclude that the point lies on this line. None of the other given answer options will result in a true equality.

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On a coordinate plane, two lines are represented by the equations and . These two lines intersect at point . What are the coordinates of point ?

Answer

You can solve for the within these two equations by eliminating the . By doing this, you get .

Solve for to get and plug back into either equation to get the value of as 1.

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If the two lines represented by and intersect at point , what are the coordinates of point ?

Answer

Solve for by setting the two equations equal to one another:

Plugging back into either equation gives .

These are the coordinates for the intersection of the two lines.

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Which of the following set of points is on the line formed by the equation ?

Answer

The easy way to solve this question is to take each set of points and put it into the equation. When we do this, we find the only time the equation balances is when we use the points .

For practice, try graphing the line to see which of the points fall on it.

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Given the graph of the line below, find the equation of the line.

Answer

To solve this question, you could use two points such as (1.2,0) and (0,-4) to calculate the slope which is 10/3 and then read the y-intercept off the graph, which is -4.

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What is the equation of the straight line passing through (–2, 5) with an x-intercept of 3?

Answer

First you must figure out what point has an x-intercept of 3. This means the line crosses the x-axis at 3 and has no rise or fall on the y-axis which is equivalent to (3, 0). Now you use the formula (y2 – y1)/(x2 – x1) to determine the slope of the line which is (5 – 0)/(–2 – 3) or –1. Now substitute a point known on the line (such as (–2, 5) or (3, 0)) to determine the y-intercept of the equation y = –x + b. b = 3 so the entire equation is y = –x + 3.

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A line is defined by the following equation:

What is the slope of that line?

Answer

The equation of a line is

y=mx + b where m is the slope

Rearrange the equation to match this:

7x + 28y = 84

28y = -7x + 84

y = -(7/28)x + 84/28

y = -(1/4)x + 3

m = -1/4

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If the coordinates (3, 14) and (_–_5, 15) are on the same line, what is the equation of the line?

Answer

First solve for the slope of the line, m using y=mx+b

m = (y2 – y1) / (x2 – x1)

= (15 – 14) / (_–_5 _–_3)

= (1 )/( _–_8)

=_–_1/8

y = –(1/8)x + b

Now, choose one of the coordinates and solve for b:

14 = –(1/8)3 + b

14 = _–_3/8 + b

b = 14 + (3/8)

b = 14.375

y = –(1/8)x + 14.375

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What is the equation of the line passing through (–1,5) and the upper-right corner of a square with a center at the origin and a perimeter of 22?

Answer

If the square has a perimeter of 22, each side is 22/4 or 5.5. This means that the upper-right corner is (2.75, 2.75)—remember that each side will be "split in half" by the x and y axes.

Using the two points we have, we can ascertain our line's equation by using the point-slope formula. Let us first get our slope:

m = rise/run = (2.75 – 5)/(2.75 + 1) = –2.25/3.75 = –(9/4)/(15/4) = –9/15 = –3/5.

The point-slope form is: y – y0 = m(x – x0). Based on our data this is: y – 5 = (–3/5)(x + 1); Simplifying, we get: y = (–3/5)x – (3/5) + 5; y = (–3/5)x + 22/5

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Which line passes through the points (0, 6) and (4, 0)?

Answer

P1 (0, 6) and P2 (4, 0)

First, calculate the slope: m = rise ÷ run = (y2 – y1)/(x2 – x1), so m = –3/2

Second, plug the slope and one point into the slope-intercept formula:

y = mx + b, so 0 = –3/2(4) + b and b = 6

Thus, y = –3/2x + 6

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What line goes through the points (1, 3) and (3, 6)?

Answer

If P1(1, 3) and P2(3, 6), then calculate the slope by m = rise/run = (y2 – y1)/(x2 – x1) = 3/2

Use the slope and one point to calculate the intercept using y = mx + b

Then convert the slope-intercept form into standard form.

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Question

Let y = 3_x_ – 6.

At what point does the line above intersect the following:

$2x =\frac{2}{3}y+4$

Answer

If we rearrange the second equation it is the same as the first equation. They are the same line.

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What is the equation of a line that passes through coordinates $\dpi{100} \small (2,6)$ and $\dpi{100} \small (3,5)$ ?

Answer

Our first step will be to determing the slope of the line that connects the given points.

$m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}=\frac{6-5}{2-3}=\frac{1}{-1}=-1$

Our slope will be . Using slope-intercept form, our equation will be . Use one of the give points in this equation to solve for the y-intercept. We will use $\dpi{100} \small (2,6)$ .

Now that we know the y-intercept, we can plug it back into the slope-intercept formula with the slope that we found earlier.

This is our final answer.

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What is the slope-intercept form of $\dpi{100} \small 8x-2y-12=0$ ?

Answer

The slope intercept form states that $\dpi{100} \small y=mx+b$ . In order to convert the equation to the slope intercept form, isolate $\dpi{100} \small y$ on the left side:

$\dpi{100} \small 8x-2y=12$

$\dpi{100} \small -2y=-8x+12$

$\dpi{100} \small y=4x-6$

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