What kind of equation is 5x-4y=8?

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shubhamsrg · Answer

0 degree linear differential eqn..

anonymous · Answer

Thank you!

shubhamsrg · Answer

:D

shubhamsrg · Answer

what's the topic of your homework ?
am assuming 2-d,,or more specifically, straight lines ?

shubhamsrg · Answer

bah alright, i was bluffing , though thats correct,,still,that not the ans you were looking for..

aravindg · Answer

its a linear equation

anonymous · Answer

my homework problem is to find the slope-intercept forms of the equations of the line s through the given point a. parallel to the given line b. perpendicular to the given line. 
line is 5x-4y=8 and point is (3,2)

shubhamsrg · Answer

read your last line again and you shall know what kind of eqn is 5x-4y=8

anonymous · Answer

a perpendicular one?

anonymous · Answer

im beyond help man.. They shouldn't have let me into Pre-Calculus. I'm stumped on the freakin review!

tyteen4a03 · Answer

Hint: The slope-intercept form of a line is $y = mx + c$, where m is the slop and c the y intercept.



Parallel lines have the same slope. Perpendicular lines have negative reciprocals slopes. (i.e 2 VS -1/2)
For this question, find the y-intercept by plugging in that x = 0 (y intercept lies on the origin, hence x will be zero), then find the slope of (0, y-intercept) and (3,2). The slope formula is $\frac{y2 - y1} {x2 - x1}$.
Then, for a, just add some random numbers to c to get a parallel line.
For b, simply replace m with the negative reciprocals of m.