SOLUTION: USE THE GIVEN CONDITIONS TO WRITE AN EQUATION FOR EACH LINE IN POINT-SLOPE FORM, AND SLOPE-INTERCEPT FORM. PASSING THROUGH (5,-9) AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE

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Question 276638: USE THE GIVEN CONDITIONS TO WRITE AN EQUATION FOR EACH LINE IN POINT-SLOPE FORM, AND SLOPE-INTERCEPT FORM.
PASSING THROUGH (5,-9) AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE LINE WHOSE EQUATION IS X+7Y=12
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Start with the fact that the slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals, that is to say:



Take your given equation and put it into slope-intercept form, by solving for . Then determine the slope of the given line by inspection of the coefficient on

Calculate the negative reciprocal to determine the slope of the perpendicular line.

Use the point-slope form of the equation of a line:



where are the coordinates of the given point and is the slope calculated above.

Once you have your point-slope form, solve for to put it into slope-intercept form.

John