document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=253134>Question 253134</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> can somebody please help me?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "i dont really understand this problem.. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "it says: write an equation that goes through the point (-3,5) and is perpendicular to y=3x + 2\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "can somebody please help?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "please and thank you! </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #185380 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=richwmiller><B>richwmiller(17219)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=richwmiller><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=richwmiller><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=185380\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Cut the bull. Everyone who submits a problem wants help and doesn't understand the problem.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Your situation and problem are not unique.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Actually it is quite basic.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "You should be asking yourself why you don't understand. Where were you when it was explained? Where is the book that explains it? Where are your notes?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "We are here to teach and you to learn not for us to do your homework.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Write an equation with slope and point is very common.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "You have to do several things.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "First, find the slope of the linear equation you were given<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Ask yourself what the slope would be of a line perpendicular to this one<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Lines which are perpendicular have slope whose product is -1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so if one slope is 1/2 the other slope will be -2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1/2*-2=-1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so the other slop=e will be its negative(minus)  reciprocal fraction turned over.2/1 turned over becomes 1/2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1/2 turned over becomes 2/1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Where m is the slope and b is the y intercept when x=0\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We are lucky that the given equation is in the right format.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y=3x+2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The slope is 3 and we want the negative reciprocal -1/3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so our equation is starting<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y=-x/3+b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Now we need to find b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so we plug in the point we were given<BR>\n" );
document.write( "-3,5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "where x=-3 and y=5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y=-x/3+b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5=-(-3)/3+b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5=3/3+b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5=1+b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4=b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "now we put it altogether and here is our equation<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y=-x/3+4<BR>\n" );
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