Concept explainers
To find:
The slope of a parallel line and the slope of a perpendicular linefor the line with the given equation.
Answer to Problem 4C
The slope of perpendicular lineto our given line is
The slope of parallel lineto our given line is
Explanation of Solution
Given:
An equation:
Concept used:
We know that the slope of a perpendicular line to a given line is negative reciprocal of the slope of the given line. The product of slopes of two perpendicular lines is -1.
We also know that the slopes of two parallel lines are equal.
Calculation:
Let m be the slope of perpendicular line to our given line.
We can see from our given equation that it is in slope-intercept form and its slope is
We will find the slope of perpendicular line to our given line as shown below:
So, the slope of perpendicular line to our given line is
We can see that the slope of our given line is
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