Analytic geometry for colleges, universities, and technical schools (1892)
Nichols, E. W. (Edward West), 1858- · Boston [Mass.] : Leach, Shewell & Sanborn · leaf 27
Making thesubstitution we find y = 2. Similarly, the point where theloous cuts the X-axis has 0 for the value of its ordinate. Mak- 12 PLANE ANALYTIC GEOMETRY. ing 2/ = 0 in the equation, we find x =the axes and marking on them the points (0, 2), 3 0 Drawing now Now make x we will have two points… … Fig. 4. Locating these points and tracing a line through them wehave the required locus. This locus appears to be a straight LOCI. 13 line — and it is, as we shall see hereafter. We shall see alsothat every equation of the first degree between two variablesrepresents some straight line. The…
Geometry, Analytic
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