Question

calc help 1 question

Answer 1

@Vocaloid

Answer 2

hm not quite

it says perpendicular so you should take the derivative and plug in x = 1, then take the negative reciprocal

assuming you did that correctly you should have gotten the slope as 1

so what would be the negative reciprocal of 1?

Answer 3

1 because you would do 1/1 which is still 1

Answer 4

hm hold on i'm getting something weird

Answer 5

oh okay

Answer 6

anyway, negative reciprocal means multiply the reciprocal by -1

so the slope should be -1

Answer 7

ah okay

Answer 8

would that make b the answer

Answer 9

?

Answer 10

ah. yes.

Answer 11

that makes sense