Find the slope of the line represented by the table of values.

1) First, find the slope of y + 7 = -2 (x - 6). We can see that it's already in point-slope form, or $y-y_1 = m (x-x_1)$ format. Remember that the number in place of the $m$ is the slope. Therefore, -2 is the slope of that equation.

What we need is the slope that is perpendicular to that, though. So, find the opposite reciprocal of -2. To do this, change its sign, convert it into a fraction ( $-\frac{2}{1}$ ), and flip its numerators and denominators. Therefore, the perpendicular slope would be $\frac{1}{2}$ .

2) Now that we have a slope and a point the line passes through, we can write an equation using the point-slope formula, $y-y_1 = m (x-x_1)$ . In order to write an equation, the $x_1$ , $y_1$ , and $m$ have to be substitute for with real values.

The $m$ represents the slope. We already calculated that in the last step, so put $\frac{1}{2}$ in place of the $m$ . The $x_1$ and $y_1$ represent the x and y values of a point the line passes through. We know that the line has to pass through (6, -3), so substitute 6 for $x_1$ and -3 for $y_1$ :

$y - (-3) = \frac{1}{2}(x -(6))\\y + 3 = \frac{1}{2}(x - 6)$

Therefore, (again, assuming that the line can be put in point-slope form) the answer is $y + 3 = \frac{1}{2}(x-6)$ .

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3 years ago

Peter mixes 4 1/2 cups of orange juice, 2 1/4 of ginger ale and 6 1/3 cups of strawberry lemonade to make some punch. What is th

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To add these amounts together, we must first find their least common multiple in order to get common denominators (b/c when you add fractions, the denominators must be the same).

We'll start by listing some of their multiples.
To do this, count by whatever the denominator is:
4 1/2 (denominator is 2): 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
2 1/4 (denominator is 4): 4 8 12 16
6 1/3 (denominator is 3): 3 6 9 12 15

Look and see which is the first multiple that all three denominators have. Circle them if it helps you. In this case, it's 12.

So now we have to multiply the denominators by whatever number it takes to reach 12, and multiply by the same number to the numerator:

4 1/2 (times 6 to both top and bottom) =
4 6/12

2 1/4 (times 3) = 2 3/12

6 1/3 (times 4) = 6 4/12

Add all these fractions together, and you get 12 13/12, which is equal to 13 1/12.

Thus, Peter makes a total of 13 1/2 cups.

Hope this made sense! tell me if anything is confusing/incorrect :))

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