SOLUTION: Find the equation of the line parallel to the line 2x+3y=6 and passing at a distance {{{5sqrt(13)/13}}} from the point (-1,1)? Please I need your solution and graph! thank you so m

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Question 684155: Find the equation of the line parallel to the line 2x+3y=6 and passing at a distance from the point (-1,1)? Please I need your solution and graph! thank you so much...
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the equation of the line parallel to the line 2x+3y=6 and passing at a distance from the point (-1,1)? Please I need your solution and graph! thank you so much...

Here is the graph of the line 2x + 3y = 6 and the point (-1,1):



2x + 3y = 6

is equivalent to

2x + 3y - 6 = 0.

Every line parallel to the line 

2x + 3y - 6 = 0 

is of the form

2x + 3y + K = 0.

The distance from the point (p,q) to the line 
Ax + By + C = 0 is given by the formula:



So since the distance from (-1,1) to the line 2x + 3y + K = 0

is to be , we have







Cross multiply and solve for K, 

using the + we get K = 4 and using th - we get -6 

For K = 4 the solution is

2x + 3y + 4 = 0

which has this graph (in green):



using K = -6. we have the solution

2x + 3y + (-6) = 0

2x + 3y - 6 = 0

Wow! That's the GIVEN LINE!!!  As it turns out, the given line 
was itself  units from the point (-1,1).  
However we wanted a line PARALLEL to 2x + 3y - 6 = 0, not that 
line itself.  So the only solution is

2x + 3y + 4 = 0

Edwin

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