The graph of intersects the -axis at points and and the -axis at point . What is ?
Problem 73
Official solution
First, find , , and . Create vectors and These can be reduced to and , respectively. Then, we can use the dot product to calculate the cosine of the angle (where ) between them:
\begin{align*} \langle -1, 3 \rangle \cdot \langle 1, 5 \rangle = 15-1 &= \sqrt{10}\sqrt{26}\cos(\theta),\\ \implies \cos (\theta) &= \frac{7}{\sqrt{65}}. \end{align*}
Thus,
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