Find the measure of angle x
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QUESTION
Your equation is 2x+3y=2 and you need to find the slope.
EXPLANATION
There are many ways to find the slope with an equation like this. I'm going to change the equation into slope-intercept form.
Slope-intercept form is formatted like this:
y=mx+b
m represents the slope. The first thing you need to do is leave 3y alone to change the equation into slope-intercept form. That means you need to subtract 2x from both sides.
The next thing you need to do is leave y alone, just like the slope-intercept form example. To leave y alone, you need to divide 3y by 3.
Now the equation has been changed to slope-intercept form. In the equation, m has been replaced by , which means that is your answer.
Answer:
Two lines are parallel if the gradient (i.e. the x coefficient) of them both is the same.
Two lines are perpendicular if the gradient has its sign changed and has it's fraction flipped (i.e. a gradient of 2/3 would become -3/2, and a gradient of 10 would become -1/10)
THe first one is in the correct form already, with a gradient of -4.
Now we need to rearrange the second:
The second equation has a gradient of 1/4, which is indeed the negative and reversal of -4, therefore the two lines are perpendicular.
Two lines are perpendicular if the gradient has its sign changed and has it's fraction flipped (i.e. a gradient of 2/3 would become -3/2, and a gradient of 10 would become -1/10)
THe first one is in the correct form already, with a gradient of -4.
Now we need to rearrange the second:
The second equation has a gradient of 1/4, which is indeed the negative and reversal of -4, therefore the two lines are perpendicular.