Right triangle from axes
A line segment has its ends on the coordinate axes and forms a triangle of area equal to 36 square units. The segment passes through the point ( 5,2). What is the slope of the line segment?
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You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
- geometry
- analytic geometry
- line
- line segment
- algebra
- quadratic equation
- expression of a variable from the formula
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- right triangle
- area of a shape
- triangle
- numbers
- fractions
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