The slope of a line is double of the slope of another line. If tangent of the angle between them is 1/3, find the slopes of the lines

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asked Feb 8, 2018 in Mathematics by Rohit Singh (61,782 points) 36 143 463

The slope of a line is double of the slope of another line. If tangent of the angle between them is 1/3, find the slopes of the lines.

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answered Feb 8, 2018 by sameer (82,980 points) 5 14 68

Let m1 and m be the slopes of the two given lines such that m1 = 2m .
We know that if θ is the angle between the lines l1 and l2 with slopes m1 and m2, then

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