A front yard is drawn on a coordinate grid, as shown. The line represents the façade of a house. The owner wants to build a fence that is perpendicular to the house and runs through (6, 5). Which line represents the fence?
hello! can you help
No he's just spamming stuff But I can Can you post the line and/or picture
Because I really can't do anything without that
sorry my computer is really slow
no problem
Ok so what is the slope of the current line?
i dont know
Well what is slope? Rise/Run right? So count how many the line goes down in a run of 1
3?
Close
-3 Because it is going down right?
y=3x+23?
is that correct?
-3 my bad
Umm as the answer or as the equation of the line? BEcause that isn't correct for either
Just look at the slope of that line for now k? -3
Now it is a fact in math that if you want a line to be perpendicular there has to be another line with an OPPOSITE SIGN and it has to be an INVERSE
So for example if I want a line to be perpendicular to a line with a slope of 2 it needs to have a slope of -1/2
Do you understand?
rise/run
can you maybe just give me the the answer? i just want to pass this test already
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