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document.write( "FIND AN EQUATION FOR THE LINE WITH y-INTERCEPT 3 THAT IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE LINE Y= 2/3x-4. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "FIND AN EQUATION FOR THE LINE WITH y-INTERCEPT 3 THAT IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE LINE Y= 2/3x-4.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals of each other.  That's a fancy word for opposite singed and upside down.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The slope intercept form of a line is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=highlight%28y=mx%2Bb%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"highlight%28y=mx%2Bb%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >, where m=slope and b=y-intercept.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The line they gave you has a slope of, <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=y=highlight%282%2F3%29x-4 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"y=highlight%282%2F3%29x-4\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >, m=2/3.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Any line pependicular to this one is going to have a slope of m=-3/2.  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "They told you that they wanted this line to have a y-intercept of b=3.  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Plug these values into the slope intercept form and you have:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Happy Calculating!!! </SPAN>\n" );
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