Answer: Arthur Stanley Eddington's 1919 expedition confirmed Einstein's prediction for the deflection of light by the Sun during the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 which helped to cement the status of general relativity as a true theory. Since then many observations have confirmed the correctness of general relativity.
By definition, two lines are perpendicular if and only if their slopes are negative reciprocals of each other: , or equivalently, .
Given our linear equation 3x + y = 3 (or y = -3x + 3):
We can find the equation of the line (with a y-intercept of 5) that is perpendicular to y = -3x + 3 by determining the negative reciprocal of its slope, -3, which is .
To test whether this is correct, we can take first slope, , and multiply it with the negative reciprocal slope :
Therefore, we came up with the correct slope for the other line, which is .
Finally, the y-intercept is given by (0, 5). Therefore, the equation of the line that is perpendicular to 3x + y = 3 is: