SOLUTION: A line is perpendicular to the line y=2x +3 and has the same x-intercept as x+3y+10=0
Find the equation of this line. Express your answer in the form y=mx+b
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Find the equation of this line. Express your answer in the form y=mx+b
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Question 755509: A line is perpendicular to the line y=2x +3 and has the same x-intercept as x+3y+10=0
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! A line is perpendicular to the line y=2x +3 and has the same x-intercept as x+3y+10=0
Find the equation of this line. Express your answer in the form y=mx+b
To make things similar, let's change x+3y+10=0 to y=mx+b form:
x+3y=-10
3y=-x-10
y=-x/3-10/3
Now we want the line to be perpendicular to y=2x+3. Perpendicular lines have negative reciprocol slopes of each other. So for the line we want, the slope has to be -1/2. We also know that the y intercept has to be -10/3 since that is what it told us. So the equation should be:
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