Families of Lines

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  • What is important about family of lines?

    A family of lines is a set of lines that have something in common with each other.

    In brief, we can have two types of families of lines:

    1. one where the slope is the same -> keep the slope unchanged and vary the y-intercept -> parallel lines
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    2. one where the y-intercept is the same -> keep the y-intercept unchanged and vary the slope -> concurrent lines
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    Alex Boroda · 1 · May 27 2015
  • What are family of lines?

    All lines following a specific criteria are called a family of lines.

    For eg.
    If the criteria is passing through a point (0,0)
    Then all possible lines passing through that point are called the family of lines.

    If the criteria is have a slope of -1,
    Then all possible lines have slope = -1 are its family of lines.
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    The idea is similar to human families where all our relatives belong to the same family (the criteria) and therefore everyone is a family member.

    I hope this helps.

    Shivani S. · 2 · Dec 23 2014

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