document.write( "Question 488297: Hi, I am trying to help my daughter with her Algebra and forgot how to solve for the following (y=mx+b) statement. I hope you can help as I have been out of this since my late twenties! \r
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Write the slope-intercept form of an equation of the line that passes through the given point and is perpendicular to the equation given.
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\n" ); document.write( "The slope of:
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\n" ); document.write( "A line perpendicular must have a slope that is the negative reciprocal:
\n" ); document.write( "(-1/5)m = -1
\n" ); document.write( "(1/5)m = 1
\n" ); document.write( "m = 5 (slope of new line)
\n" ); document.write( "use this along with the given point (2,2) and plug into the \"point-slope\" form:
\n" ); document.write( "y - y1 = m(x - x1)
\n" ); document.write( "y - 2 = 5(x - 2)
\n" ); document.write( "y - 2 = 5x - 10
\n" ); document.write( "y = 5x - 8 (this is what they're looking for -- in \"slope-intercept\" form)\r
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