Question about a pair of straight lines

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Find the centroid of the triangle formed by the pair of straight lines $12x^2-20xy+7y^2=0$ and the line $2x-3y+4=0$.

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The given pair of straight lines and the third line all pass through the point $(1,2)$. So how can three concurrent straight lines form a triangle? If the question has no flaw, please help me with it.

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All you need to do is factorize the pair of equation of lines ie

$12x^2−20xy+7y^2=0$

$(6x-7y)(2x-y) = 0$

So these are two lines and $ (1,2)$ satisfies only one of them, not both of them . They form a triangle .

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Actually if the point is satisfied by the given pair of straight lines, then the point need not lie on both the lines i.e.,$6x-7y=0$ and $2x-y=0$..

It may lie on any one of it. Here it lies only on $2x-y=0$ so they are not concurrent