document.write( "Question 1094438: Find the equation of a straight line that is perpendicular to 5x–y=1 and is such that the area of the triangle formed by the x- and y-axes is equal to 5.
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document.write( "Straight line perpendicular to  5x-y = 1  has an equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "5y + x = c,   (1)\r\n" );
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document.write( "where c is some (arbitrary) constant.\r\n" );
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document.write( "        Our original line has the slope 5; so, the perpendicular line has the slope \"-1%2F5\" and has, therefore,\r\n" );
document.write( "        the equation y = \"%28-1%2F5%29%2Ax\" + c,   which is the same as (1).\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, all you need to do is to determine the constant \"c\" in equation (1).\r\n" );
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document.write( "For it, notice that straight line  (1)  has x-intercept  (c,0)  and y-intercept  (0,\"c%2F5\").\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means, that your right-angled triangle has the legs of  \"abs%28c%29%2F5\"  and  |c|  units long.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then its area is  \"%281%2F2%29%2A%28abs%28c%29%2F5%29%2Aabs%28c%29\" = \"c%5E2%2F10\" square units.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You need to have this area equal to 5 square units. It gives you an equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"c%5E2%2F10\" = 5,\r\n" );
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document.write( "which implies  \"c%5E2\" = 50  and then  c = \"sqrt%2850%29\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means that your final equation under the question is\r\n" );
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document.write( "5y + x = \"sqrt%2850%29\".\r\n" );
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