A thorough understanding of a system of linear equations
This app contains two lines in the general forms as follows:[br][br][math]a_1x+b_1y=c_1[/math] and [math]a_2x+b_2y=c_2[/math].[br][br]Experiment with the sliders for [math]a_1[/math], [math]b_1[/math], [math]c_1[/math], [math]a_2[/math], [math]b_2[/math], and [math]c_2[/math], to answer the following questions.
1. What is the slope of the first line (red line) when a1 = 2, b1 = 3?
2. Experiment with the sliders and answer when will both the lines coincide?
3. What happens to the graph of both the lines when a1 = a2, b1 = b2 but c1 and c2 are not equal?
4. Set a1 = 4, b1 = 2 and c1 = 1. What will be the value of a2 + b2 + c2 when the black line is 4 units below the red line?
5. Set a1 = k(a2), b1 = k(b2) and c1 = k(c2) (here k can be any positive integer). For example, a1= 2, a2 = 4, b1 = -1, b2 = -2, c1 = 1 and c2 = 2. [br][br]Experiment with the sliders as required and select the correct answer choices from below.