SOLUTION: what would be a line that is perpindicular to the line y=3/2x+4 that passes through (1,5)?

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Question 394236: what would be a line that is perpindicular to the line y=3/2x+4 that passes through (1,5)?
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Hi

line that is perpindicular to the line y=3/2x+4 would have slope m = -(2/3)

Note: the standard slope-intercept form for an equation of a line is: y = mx + b

  where m is the slope and b the y-intercept.  

y = -(2/3)x + b     |using ordered pair Pt(1,5) to solve for b

5 = -2/3 + b

5 2/3 = b

y = -(2/3)x + 17/3