Spot the false statement
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- False statement
- A vertical line has slope zero
- Statements
- A vertical line has slope zero
- Slope is the tangent of the inclination
- The x-axis has slope zero
- False statement
- Distance uses any segment to the line
- Statements
- Collinear points give a zero area triangle
- Distance uses any segment to the line
- Inclination is measured anticlockwise
- False statement
- Two lines in a plane may only be parallel
- Statements
- A and B cannot both be zero in the general form
- The angle between lines uses their slopes
- Two lines in a plane may only be parallel
- False statement
- Inclination can exceed one eighty
- Statements
- Inclination can exceed one eighty
- Inclination may be acute or obtuse
- Slope is denoted by the letter m
- Instructions
- Two statements are true and one is false. Tap the false one.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus Mathematics, Ch 9 'Straight Lines'_