The problem I am dealing with is in the picture:
my limited intellect could only conceive of two approaches to solving this problem.
The second approach turned out to be the first approach, but with extra steps. ;(
My Attempt - Find the Pythagorean distance between (x,mx+c) and the origin
[math]d= \sqrt{(x^2)+(mx+c)^2 }[/math]
and I stopped right there because my expression contains the variable "x" while the solution doesn't.
How can this problem be solved, I am completely stuck.
my limited intellect could only conceive of two approaches to solving this problem.
The second approach turned out to be the first approach, but with extra steps. ;(
My Attempt - Find the Pythagorean distance between (x,mx+c) and the origin
[math]d= \sqrt{(x^2)+(mx+c)^2 }[/math]
and I stopped right there because my expression contains the variable "x" while the solution doesn't.
How can this problem be solved, I am completely stuck.