Let ABCD be a quadrilateral, let E be the intersection of lines AB and CD, and let F be the intersection of lines BC and AD. If the lines AC and BD of this quadrilateral are perpendicular and the slopes of the equations of its sides AB, BC, CD, DA are, respectively, $-1, 2, 3, 4$, which is the slope of equation of line EF?
Besides using the obvious relation between the slopes of lines AC e BD, what do you do?
There's a simplier way to solve this kind of problem:
First use the following forgotten theorem of analytic geometry:
If the slopes of the equations of sides AB, BC, CD, DA, of a quadrilateral ABCD are respectively $m_1, m_2, m_3, m_4$, and the diagonals AC and BD (or the extended lines of them) are perpendicular, then the equation in $p$
$$(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)p^2 -((m_2+m_4)(1+m_1m_3)-(m_1+m_3)(1+m_2m_4))p -(m_1m_3-m_2m_4) =0$$
is satisfied by both slopes of the diagonals (in case both exist) or by the only existing one.
Applying this theorem, we get the second degree equation
$$11p^2-30p-11=0$$
Solving it, we get the solutions $${15+\sqrt {346} \over 11}, {15-\sqrt {346} \over 11}$$
for the slopes of the diagonals AC and BD.
Afterwards we use a neat and straightforward formula for calculating the slope of EF (same notation used in the above theorem):
$$m_{EF}={m_2m_3(m_1+m_4-m_{BD})-m_1m_4(m_2+m_3-m_{BD})\over m_2m_3-m_1m_4+(m_1+m_4-m_2-m_3)m_{BD}}$$
And we finally arrive at the solutions:
$$m_{EF}={55+\sqrt{346}\over 19}$$
or $$m_{EF}={55-\sqrt{346}\over 19}$$