SOLUTION: What is the formula or method of coming up with a line that is perpendicular to and equation and passes through a specific point... ex: equation of a line that is perpendicular

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Question 379392: What is the formula or method of coming up with a line that is perpendicular to and equation and passes through a specific point...
ex: equation of a line that is perpendicular to 3x-4y=10 and passes through (-1,2)
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the slope of the line.



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Perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals,



Use the slope intercept form of a line,

Use the point (,) to solve for ,



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