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The steepness of a line is called the angle. true or false

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The steepness of a line is called slope or in trigonometry it's the tangent of the angle formed by the line with the horizontal.

Obviously the tangent of an angle can be used to calculate the value of the angle
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false the steepness of a line is the slope
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