1989 AHSME Problems/Problem 6
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If and the triangle in the first quadrant bounded by the co-ordinate axes and the graph of
has area 6, then
Solution
Setting we have that the
intercept of the line is
. Similarly setting
we find the
intercept to be
. Then
so that
. Hence the answer is
.
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