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Question
Determine the distance between the pair of parallel lines:
y = mx + c and y = mx + d
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Solution
The given parallel lines can be written as
mx − y +c = 0 ... (1)
mx − y +d = 0 ... (2)
Let d be the distance between the given lines.
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