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Seven board members of a company must decide between two other board members (A and B) for a certain position. The voters are concerned with two issues and their ideal points are represented as ordered pairs: (1, 5), (3, 3), (5, 2), (6, 4), (6, 2), (4, 4), and (3, 2). Assume that A and B announce policy positions of (2, 2) and (5, 4), respectively.
-Find the equation of the line which divides the two-dimensional space separating voters preferring A over B from those preferring B over A.

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