SOLUTION: are these lines parallel, perpendicular, or neither? 3x-5y=2 and y-4=3/5x

SOLUTION: are these lines parallel, perpendicular, or neither? 3x-5y=2 and y-4=3/5x

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Question 115366: are these lines parallel, perpendicular, or neither? 3x-5y=2 and y-4=3/5x
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First we have to get them in this form: y=mx+b m=slope
3x-5y=2
3x-3x-5y=-3x+2
-5y=-3x+2
-5y/-5=-3x/-5+2/-5
y=3x/5 -2/5
m=3/5
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y-4=3x/5
y-4+4=3x/5+4
y=3x/5+4
m=3/5
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since m=3/5 for both they are parallel
.
Ed

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