SOLUTION: Consider the line 3x+8y=5 What is the slope of a line parallel to this line? What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?
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Question 732039: Consider the line 3x+8y=5 What is the slope of a line parallel to this line? What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?
I am so confused
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! Consider the line 3x+8y=5 What is the slope of a line parallel to this line? What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?
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Put 3x+8y=5 into slope-intercept form.
That means solve for y.
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3x+8y=5
y = (-3/8)x + 5/8
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The slope is -3/8
All parallel lines have the same slope, -3/8
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The slope of lines perpendicular is the negative inverse, = +8/3
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That's all there is to that.
