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Cake plot. Imagine a cake in the shape of a rectangle that is placed on the xy-plane with corners at the points
You plan to cut the cake along a line from point A to point C. Find an equation for this line. What if you wanted to cut the cake along the line from B to D? Find an equation for this line.
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